As the old saying goes: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
I made another buttonhole book following Jessica's binding directions from an online video. I've been doing the stitch sequence wrong...or at least awkwardly for a long time. The right way is so much simpler.
The book small....about 3 x 4 inches and fits in the palm of my hand. It has 7 signatures of single sheet medium watercolor paper.
I'm not wild about my choice to add color to the folded edge of the pages peeking through...but I softened it by adding the rainbow ribbon closure.
Your opening line immediately brought to mind this line from Carol Ryrie Brink's children's novel, Caddie Woodlawn: "If at first you don't fricasee, fry, fry a hen." !!!
ReplyDeleteYour willingness to fry, fry a hen takes you such lovely places, MaryAnn. You must be quite pleased to have sorted out the stitching process. The binding stitches look terrific in this nifty new palm-sized book with its polka-dotted cover and button-and-rainbow-ribbon closure. Ta da!
Ha ha....I'm not familiar with that novel...but that's a good line!
DeleteYes...I'm glad to have sorted the stitching out. There is so much free information and so many tutorials out there and I'm grateful to the artists who share their process. Maybe I'll make a book from start to finish and blog my way through it with all that I have learned from others.
Cute! Cute! I love it. If it were mine, I don't think I could write in it. But that is not the purpose of the book. LOL
ReplyDeleteThanks Ellen! I totally get that....but I'm getting better at it. It's like using the good china...what are you waiting for? I've started working in many of my precious handmade books.
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