Days 12 and 13 - July 20

Thursday was a fine day. It was surprisingly busy, in particularly because our modem died. This is the THIRD modem from our local phone (DSL) service. The skinny on the situation is that whenever there is a thunderstorm the generation of modem that we have dies. The manufacturer received bad parts that make it generally a piece of crap. So, right now, no wi-fi signal. If I do manage to get this posted Sunday eve it will be a miracle, but we’ll see… In terms of bookmaking, I did manage to squeak out two books, not falling any more behind. Here they are.

Book 10: 'leaf' edge sewn binding
{paper} text block: French Paper Co. text-weight yellow paper; cover: translucent paper
{binding} sewn in a variation of traditional edge sewn bindings that looks a bit like a leaf

I saw an example of an edge sewn binding somewhere recently that was made in a similar patter but sewn with pipe cleaners. This example was really intriguing because of the sewing materials, and because the designer used interesting binding to page size proportions. The binding occupied more than half of the overall width of the book, leaving a relatively small page size. The result of this inspiration is this book. The front binding looks good, but back is a bit messier. The next time, it will improve.

Book 11: junk mail pamphlet
{paper} junk mail from a credit card offer
{binding} basic butterfly stitch for a pamphlet

This book felt like a bit of a cheat, because I have used this binding before. I got the idea for the junk-mail pamphlet after going through our daily selection of direct-mail credit offers. This was the only offer to avoid the paper shredder. Simply trimming the entire envelope yielded an easy little pamphlet. The interplay of text and credit card logos is sort of fun on the interior.