Last bit of the cover stock from the damaged poster. This is the Buttonhole Stitch Binding from Keith Smith’s Non-Adhesive Bindings book. I didn’t fold the cover all the way over to the spine in this one, just made flaps like a dust jacket, and the spine is only folded double from where the cutout is made. The result is that the spine doesn’t feel as substantial to me as the others did (only two layers instead of three), and I found when I pulled the threads tight I wore grooves in the edges where the threads went over the top and bottom. But I like the way the vertical threads cross the horizontal lines in the drawing.

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Folding paper can be relaxing. We have broad window sills in our condo, about 21" deep, and sometimes I’ll work there, folding the paper into sections while listening to an audio book and watching the people and the traffic below me. I’ll get into a rhythm of picking up a large sheet of paper, matching the corners and finger-pressing the fold, and setting it aside, and then moving to the next sheet. Then I’ll crease all the folds with a bone folder and tear them (or not), restack the paper, and make the next fold on all the sheets.

Now if only I could motivate my butt to get out the PVA and make some cases.

One more journal in the Long Stitch bindings series. This is a sibling journal to About the Size Journal #1: same size, same paper, same poster, but with a variation on the spine stitching.

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Playing with some more long stitch bindings. This is the classic Long Stitch through Slotted Cover binding from Keith Smith’s Non-Adhesive Bindings book, except that I poked four holes in the spine instead of using slots. Like the Running with Scissors journal, I used part of a damaged Jay Ryan print for the cover, and 24 lb Mohawk Superfine for the pages. The journal measures 4-1/2 inches wide by 5-3/4 inches high and has 192 pages in 8 sections.

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