Friday, October 16, 2009

Drops



binding is straight up double needle coptic

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Golden


cover


zig zag variation on coptic with zig zags left unfinished as a variation on the variation


close up


edges are dusted with gold

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Awake

I've figured out that lately I stay most focused in class when I'm making a book. Any of the more complicated stitches that fall in line best when I don't think about it. I've been making a lot of books lately



binding is a double needle coptic modified into X shapes

Monday, October 5, 2009

Schoolbook

Wow, it really has been awhile since I last updated here. Well, I've been making books, I keep awake during lectures by making them but my card reader has not really been working...but, anyway

my notebook for this semester


a suitably ambiguous cover (a litho print) made water resistant by too much matte medium.


I took the opportunity to use up some of the bits of thread that I have lying around that are too short to use by themselves but are the last of their color to create this two-tone single-needle coptic