bookmaking
Happiness is a few hours in the bookmaking studio this morning, looking up occasionally to observe a light snow falling. I assembled this Coptic book, with covers made from ecodyed papers toned with watercolor:...
Monthly Archive: November 2018
trapped
Cabbage butterfly indoors. Certain death both inside and out.
working on
a baby blanket for the pizza man and his wife. Amazing how muscle memory retained how to crochet after so many years. The Midwife Blanket And it’s cold and going to get colder and...
flat style australian reverse piano hinge
Making handmade books I made a model of this easy binding with some hand dyed papers that were floating around. My favorite papers this year combined blueberry leaves and sumac berries.
profusion of patchwork
More nine patches for the couch cover I’m making. I’ve sketched out the overall design on graph paper so I sort of know where I’m going with it. Just need to make three more...
stitching in sunshine
After a terminally gloomy yesterday, today has glorious sunshine and still no power. Taking some time to stitch down one of Spiritcloth’s threadcrumbs onto a nine patch. Hard to see the glints of the...
nine patch
Making a few nine patch squares today. I cut these out months ago and just yesterday ironed them to prepare for stitching by hand. Not sure of their final destination – either a throw...