I felt much better today, probably because the sun was shining and I slept a bit better last night. Plus, today was another adventure in bookbinding and I had so much fun. I took my camera to snap a couple of pictures of my book in progress. Take a look.

I’m making a springback book which consists of 25 signatures which makes this a pretty hefty book. Here is a view of the sewn signatures. The cardboard pieces, which are much longer than the book will be trimmed later. The green leather pieces are the headbands I made.

Next, I had to pare down the leather I plan to use to reinforce the spine. To do so, I used this machine and ran the strip of leather through until I got it pretty thin. This took a lot longer than I thought as it takes a bit of getting used to the motions you have to make. I was scared I was going to break through the leather.

Finally, it was ready so I placed my book in a finishing press, made some paste and glued the leather onto the spine. Here’s what it looks like:

Let’s see how far I get into this next week. It was funny because I told my teacher I had to sign up for the next session which starts in two weeks because at the rate I’m going it will take me another full session to finish this book! ha,ha.

*handmade

Lots of rain, a bit of a headache all day and several nights of insomnia take their toll on this Bookgirl. So the only reading I could do today was from one of my favorite poetry collections, Poetry 180. Below is one poem I really enjoyed.
Hope you enjoy it and hopefully more book talk tomorrow.

Lines
By Martha Collins
Draw a line. Write a line. There.
Stay in line, hold the line, a glance
between the lines is fine but don’t
turn corners, cross, cut in, go over
or out, between two points of no
return’s a line of flight, between
two points of view’s a line of vision.
But a line of thought is rarely
straight, an open line’s no party
line, however fine your point.
A line of fire communicates, but drop
your weapons and drop your line,
consider the shortest distance from x
to y, let x be me, let y be you.