Week Seventeen - Double Barrel

So this week has been crazy and I had no idea what to do for my book a week. It finally came to me yesterday at the end of my day off.

A bunch of us were hanging out at a friends farm house and when we go down there we usually go shooting at targets on the side a hill. I picked up some of the casings and thought they world be perfect to incorporate into a book and also displayed well the week I've been having.

I used 4 casing from a shotgun for the cover and one 30-30 casing on the back cover. The 30-30 works perfectly to hold a normal BIC pen and I attached it with the headband stitch from last week. I figured I'd try the headband again and found I still don't care for it but it only took me two tries this time.

Week Sixteen - Nevermore

This book is sewn together with a coptic stitch. After the book was sewn, the headband, in purple thread, was sewn on. This was my first time doing a sewn headband on a coptic book and I must admit that I don't think I will ever do it again. It was quite frustrating and it took me three tries to get it right. I just don't think the headband is my thing.

Week Fifteen - Tanning

The cover of this book is a scrap piece of leather that I have cut straight. The inside is blank paper and paste paper pages. I titled this book "Tanning" as a play on words referencing the leather and the sun. It has a beer bottle cap as its closure that has a smiling sun on it.

Week Fourteen - Stars

This book uses folded squares glued back to back to create a book that opens into a star. I used scraps of paste paper for the pages and cover.

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