so i made a book
yesterday i made a book (technically a booklet) and gave myself a blister sewing the binding. >.< it's a very cute booklet, tho, and once it gets to its final home i'll post some pics. it was book-i-wanted-to-make #2. in the meantime i can share pics of book-i-wanted-to-make #1, which did get to its final home.
once upon a time, crotalus_atrox wrote a story called the delta blues, which is about a guy who goes back to this tiny pinprick town in mississippi, where he's bought a house. (he has a history with the house and the town and the house's former occupants.) there's more to it than that, but that's how it starts. i liked it and thought i could make a book out of it.
it's 4.25" x 5.5", because they almost always are, and is 128 pages. the cover paper is blue-green lokta paper, and this pic isn't quite representative of the color but is close enough. there's a point in the story where the narrator turns on the tap in the bathtub and the tub fills with goldfish, and since i couldn't find a fish-shaped bead, i got a carved bone (at least i think it's bone - it looks like bone) ring thing with fish on it to hang from the cord bookmark.
binding. :D i love coptic stitch. i still need a diagram to follow and i've never sewn a binding that was actually even, but i love it anyway. i used brown thread, altho it's not waxed like the stuff i usually use, which means it's possibly not archival and it kept twisting and kinking and knotting itself while i was trying to sew. but i liked how it looked.
the inside cover paper is, like, scrapbooking paper from ac moore. i had a hard time finding rusty brown paper to represent the dust and dirt roads of the town in the story. please to be ignoring how ugly the holes for the binding are from the inside.
there's a spider in the story. a big one. i have a spider stamp. a small one. :D i did not, as sandra originally thought, draw this spider. but i thought he'd be cute on the back of the book. the paper looks a little furry here, but i'm not sure why that is.
as an aside, when you're counting pages for a blank book and it has 200 pages, that means 200 sheets of paper. but if you're counting pages for a novel and it has 200 pages, that means 200 sides of paper, or 100 sheets. (because you print on both sides of a sheet.) and because sometimes i'm an idiot, this always confuses me when i'm talking about the books i've made and how many pages they have.
and now that i've shared that, i think i want chinese food for dinner.
once upon a time, crotalus_atrox wrote a story called the delta blues, which is about a guy who goes back to this tiny pinprick town in mississippi, where he's bought a house. (he has a history with the house and the town and the house's former occupants.) there's more to it than that, but that's how it starts. i liked it and thought i could make a book out of it.
it's 4.25" x 5.5", because they almost always are, and is 128 pages. the cover paper is blue-green lokta paper, and this pic isn't quite representative of the color but is close enough. there's a point in the story where the narrator turns on the tap in the bathtub and the tub fills with goldfish, and since i couldn't find a fish-shaped bead, i got a carved bone (at least i think it's bone - it looks like bone) ring thing with fish on it to hang from the cord bookmark.
binding. :D i love coptic stitch. i still need a diagram to follow and i've never sewn a binding that was actually even, but i love it anyway. i used brown thread, altho it's not waxed like the stuff i usually use, which means it's possibly not archival and it kept twisting and kinking and knotting itself while i was trying to sew. but i liked how it looked.
the inside cover paper is, like, scrapbooking paper from ac moore. i had a hard time finding rusty brown paper to represent the dust and dirt roads of the town in the story. please to be ignoring how ugly the holes for the binding are from the inside.
there's a spider in the story. a big one. i have a spider stamp. a small one. :D i did not, as sandra originally thought, draw this spider. but i thought he'd be cute on the back of the book. the paper looks a little furry here, but i'm not sure why that is.
as an aside, when you're counting pages for a blank book and it has 200 pages, that means 200 sheets of paper. but if you're counting pages for a novel and it has 200 pages, that means 200 sides of paper, or 100 sheets. (because you print on both sides of a sheet.) and because sometimes i'm an idiot, this always confuses me when i'm talking about the books i've made and how many pages they have.
and now that i've shared that, i think i want chinese food for dinner.