After another day spent mostly in bed, I'm feeling slightly less drippy. I'm determined that tomorrow I will be all better. Good thing, because I got on the phone today to reconnect with old friends and my dance card is rapidly filling up for the next week or two with breakfasts, lunches, literary readings, drives in the country and art workshops.
Pawing through the mess of materials and supplies on my one table tonight, I picked out this red-checked plastic tie-clasp envelope, like an old-fashioned inter-office envelope. When I saw this envelope in the store the other day, I knew I'd use it for something. Today it beckoned. Or maybe I decided to do this one today because I could see it in the pile and find everything I needed without a major archeological excavation.
I only have the one table in my room, and it serves also as a computer table. I mostly sit on the floor or the bed when I'm stitching. But I do need to get that one table more organized!
This was a regular page-size envelope, which I cut down to the size I wanted. Where the red-checked back wrapped around the front, I needed to attach it to the front panel. I first tried gluing it down with super glue. Wasn't happening. Guess it doesn't like the plastic. So then, after cleaning off the glue residue, I used double-sided tape to put it together. That seemed to work. There are 4 signatures of 9 pages each of pastel bond paper in pink, pale yellow, aqua and white. I stitched them to the plastic cover with white waxed linen thread using my usual longstitch binding.
Cute little book. I can see a schoolgirl carrying this one around proudly.
Pawing through the mess of materials and supplies on my one table tonight, I picked out this red-checked plastic tie-clasp envelope, like an old-fashioned inter-office envelope. When I saw this envelope in the store the other day, I knew I'd use it for something. Today it beckoned. Or maybe I decided to do this one today because I could see it in the pile and find everything I needed without a major archeological excavation.
I only have the one table in my room, and it serves also as a computer table. I mostly sit on the floor or the bed when I'm stitching. But I do need to get that one table more organized!
This was a regular page-size envelope, which I cut down to the size I wanted. Where the red-checked back wrapped around the front, I needed to attach it to the front panel. I first tried gluing it down with super glue. Wasn't happening. Guess it doesn't like the plastic. So then, after cleaning off the glue residue, I used double-sided tape to put it together. That seemed to work. There are 4 signatures of 9 pages each of pastel bond paper in pink, pale yellow, aqua and white. I stitched them to the plastic cover with white waxed linen thread using my usual longstitch binding.
Cute little book. I can see a schoolgirl carrying this one around proudly.
I like it! Yesterday as I was organizing some stuff I found the reverse piano hinge model that I made based on Diehn's book. Would you like me to send it to you? If so contact me at elaine dot normandy at gmail dot com.
ReplyDeleteIf you need to catch up with a quick book. Try the 9 fold single piece of paper book. The accordion fold book.
ReplyDeleteA book with a rubber band into holes punched in paper and slip a pencil into rubber band loops to hold a pages together. A favorite of mine for first day in class.