Saturday, April 26, 2014

April 12th Meeting Recap

Hello Everyone,

Hopefully you had a wonderful Easter holiday.  I am especially grateful for the warmer weather and no snow.

Just a quick recap of our April 12th meeting.

Our group project, the “Seasons” book, got off to a great start.  Thanks everyone for bring in your Spring page.  :D   You will want to keep your traded pages secure.  Once we have all the pages for seasons traded, we will discuss how to assemble them into a bound book.  The Summer page will be due at our August or September meeting.

A big THANK YOU to Dina Leib for demonstrating the Tab and Slot and the Tea Bag book forms and providing the materials.  It was very inspirational.  I have posted photos of my finished books  and will be putting the demos of them up later this month.

Tab and Slot



Tea Bag



Dianna Reiter brought in her example of the Secret Belgium Binding Book.




It’s a beautiful sewn book binding but a bit tricky.  Or anyone whose interested in giving it a try on their own, I have posted a tutorial of the binding (from Erin Fletcher at herringbonebindery.com) on our Pinterest board.  (Pinterest board link:  Binders Guild Pinterest Board)


Chris Klein also shared with us another set of instructions for Hedi Kyle's Diagonal Pocket Book form.  This set of instructions came from the magazine Bound & Lettered, Fall 2013.  The article "Making a Paper Wallet" by Carol Bubosch has great instructions and very clear photos of what to do.

Our next meeting is May 10th  from 10am to Noon at Mt. Mary.  Chris Klein has volunteered to demonstrate the Secret Victorian Purse Fold.  For this you will need to bring a 9” x 9” text weight paper.  It can be printed on one side and white on the other.  This will make you a purse that is 3” square.  If you would like to make a 4” purse, the paper size should be 12” x 12”.

You will also need to bring a bone folder and just the regular supplies (pencil, ruler, scissors, etc.)

Happy Spring!
See everyone on the 10th.


Sheila

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