A present for Traci

I promised Traci I would make her a Coptic bound sketchbook and it's finally here!! Very exciting. It's identical to the one I made myself last semester except that the waxed linen thread is white instead of blue (and the end pages are a different pattern). Here are a few process shots:


...and here is the end result:

Today was a very good bookbinding day. I only poked myself with the needle four times (and that was at the very very end of the sewing process), I didn't get a single drop of glue on the covers, and I didn't run out of thread. It took me five hours straight to complete it from start to finish and I am very very happy with the outcome.

New sketchbook

I finally got time to take another bookbinding class this past semester. It's very relaxing once you have all your pages and boards cut, and holes punched. Here's a Coptic bound sketchbook I made in the class.It's one of my favorite structures. I'm going to be making one for my roommate/friend/classmate Traci. It's gonna be similar to this one, unless I find different paper for the cover that I think she'll like more...dark colors of course :)