Gabe's book

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Glueing Gabe's book

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"my first book"

Eily has been drawing on 11 x 17 one-sided sheets leftover from B's work and B bound them together into a book. Last night, we "read" it with Eily telling me about each page. Then, we wrote in the words. It's all pretty exciting and I'm looking forward to making another one.

I also gathered up scraps of all different papers - construction, handmade, japenese, etc - many leftover from my bookmaking days and piled them into a basket for Eily for easy access in craft-making. I'm thinking of doing the same in a couple months with fabric pieces, yarn bits, and other crafting odds and ends.

Sunday morning

while the boys went birding, i spent the weekend morning trying out a blanket stitch on an eyeglass cover, first with my own handpsun which was incredibly lumpy, then with embroidery floss, then i gave up and machine stitched it.


these little owls line the inside and hold the wool stuffing in:

the finished case:

i also made a book, after a very long interval, for a dear friend; watched the sprouts grow; and ate too many licorice all-sorts. a decadent morning.

the lentil sprouts made it to last night's salad with carmelized leek and potato soup and delicious little rolls from 101 cookbooks, found here, and i say delicious because they were grainy and healthy too! (made up for the all-sorts accident.)

Friends of ours are getting hitched this weekend, while we celebrate Mom and Dad's 60ths. Here's one of the last handmade books I had around which turns out to be a good guest book for them. It has eternal stitching and an extended spine to allow room for photos and such.

Eily's book needed some adornment so I used needle felting. I was going for beans in honour of our little beanpod, but they turned our peas instead. I also wanted the colours to be subtle but the pods didn't really look like anything without filling them in. I'm not totally content with the effect.

eily has been saying the most hilarious things lately and i've just finished the book i was journalling for him since just before his birth. i had this handbound book that i made several years ago that hadn't sold and was started to look rather ugly (not sure why i picked the original fabric), so i decided to cover it with a felted piece instead. now, i have to decide what to sew/needle felt on top. maybe a bulldozer?