I returned to my stack of gelli prints to make today’s book—a coptic-bound sketchbook. This is book 10 in my 50 Book Project. We had a huge ugly weed growing in our front yard last summer but it had the most amazing leaves that were perfect for making gelli prints—they were large and sturdy with […]
I’m not sorry to say goodbye to February – it’s been a tough, snow filled month here in New England. I just hope that March brings us some sunshine to melt all that white stuff and cheer us all up! Today, I’m sharing the last ‘sewn over tapes’ binding (for a while). If you’ve been […]
I’m so excited to share book number 8 in my 50 Book Challenge with you because it has recycled fabric covers. I’ve wanted to incorporate recycled fabric into my projects for a while, so during one of our recent snowstorms, I cut up a pair of my daughter’s outgrown pajamas and designed this cute 4″ x […]
I’ve finally found a way to use all the gelli prints I made last year! At first I thought that this 50 Book Project would be a great way to use up my embarrassingly large stash of commercial and handmade papers, but it turns out I really like using my own gelatin prints. When I […]
I used another one of my mono prints for the cover of this week’s handmade journal – it’s book 6 in my 50 Book Project. The print was made on a piece of 90lb mixed media paper using Speedball inks and a gelatin plate. The shapes were created with leaves and the texture with […]
Oh my gosh I’m on book number 4 of The 50 Book Project. Will I be able to come up with another 46 book structures? I don’t know, but I’m going to try my best 🙂 I love this week’s binding. It’s called Long Stitch/Link Stitch binding and can be found in Volume 1 of Keith […]
Welcome to week 3 of The 50 Book Project. This week I made what I thought was going to be a quick and easy binding: a simple long stitched book. I followed this long stitch tutorial by Erica Munoz and chose for the cover material a piece of navy felted wool. The felted wool […]
Updated January 2018: I wrote a tutorial on this binding here. Welcome to week 2 of The 50 Book Project. This book is a variation on tacket stitching that I explored last week with the large and small tacketed leather journals. It’s also called a Long Stitch with Packing. It’s also detailed on Dennis Yuen […]
Welcome to the first post in the The 50 Project, my year long quest to make 50 book structures. Book number 1 is a tacketed leather journal. I found this binding in Book Art Studio Handbook by Stacie Dolan and Amy Lapidow, both Massachusetts based bookbinders. The tacket binding that they outline in the book is a modern interpretation […]
