Week Thirteen - Belly dance

This book has a hard cover spine so you can not see the stitching. It requires quite a bit of measuring which is why it's not my favorite to make. I prefer to free hand and eyeball most of my books. It was a lot of fun to make though, mainly because of the piece in the front cover. It's an object I found a while ago while working at camp. It reminds me a lot of a belly dancer, hence the title.

Week Twelve - Altered

This book is made from pages of an altered book I had started but never finished. I decided randomly, while sitting in a large pile of art stuff, to take some of the pages out of the old book and re-sew them. I did a Stab binding which I'd compare to a blanket stitch in fibers. I used laminating sheets as the cover and ribbon for the binding. Every page in it is different.

Week Eleven - Celebration

Week II: I made a celebration book!  It was intended to celebrate week 11 but it turned out that I  only had 10 candles so we can call it a belated celebration for week 10. 

I improvised on stitches I already knew since I hadn't ever sewn objects into a binding before this. 

I like the way it came out and if I do this again I'll have to put in more candles (and larger ones) so they make a complete circle.

Week Ten - The Accordion

I have decided that I am going to try to make a different style book each week for a while.  To start this I made an accordion fold book with a second piece in the center that is going in the opposite direction.  For the main accordion piece, I created a collage on one side with pictures from a National Geographic.  The other side I decorated with abstract scribbles.  The center piece is made by folding a long piece of tracing paper and then making slits so it can be woven through the main piece.  The way the tracing paper was folded created pockets, so I put an artist trading card in each pocket.  The artist trading cards are made by multiple different people.

Only 42 weeks left in the year!

Week Nine - More Books

I'm not really sure what to say about this book but that it was just something that happened while messing around with materials.  I love how it came out though.