Having gotten a few practice runs out of the way with the Running with Scissors journal and About the Size journals 1, 2 and 3, I was ready to commit to a hardcover version. I ended up doing this one twice; the first time the binding was perfect, but I pricked my finger during the sewing and bled on the cover. Gah! So I cut the stitching and took the pages out and made a second case.

The pages are Bristol Drawing, which is a 100 lb drawing paper. I tore the sheets for a change, so some of the page edges are deckled . There are 96 pages in 8 sections. The finished book size is about 6" by 9" by 1.25". The two books below are the same as the blue one except for the height, which is about 4.5"

It’s a bit of a departure for me to use only book cloth for the cover, but it feels to me like the stitching should get the spotlight on these books. There are some more shots starting here in my Flickr stream.