Northland Chapter monthly meeting

Piano hinge binding was our challenge for October.  Anne found the instructions on this lovely blog http://bumblingacrossletterboxes.blogspot.co.nz/2012/08/how-to-make-piano-hinge-book.html  practiced a few samples in advance, and undertook to guide us through the day. Precise measuring and cutting were required in order to produce even hinges and a book which opens easily.  This style of binding results in a journal which would lend itself to holding photos or other such ephemera, such as small sketches or paintings.

Ngaire's book top view

Ngaire's book showing weaving on hinge posts

Inside Kaye's book with rods still to be woven and cut to length

The day's work including Anne's 2

Kaye's outside with weaving on bottom posts
 

 

Whatever the weather...

Today outside my shop....the sign says it all

Springtime in the shop

My friend Carol has an awesome garden and every year she brings me waratah flowers from her trees.

Woven Album

Exploring with new binding techniques.  This one uses strips of strong paper, woven through specially cut slots, to create a checkerboard effect on the pages and cover boards. Because of the extra thickness the weaving provides at the spine the finished journal is perfect for holding ephemera or photos. An awesome place in which to record your travels.

Fathers in fiction

http://www.bookish.com/articles/father-knows-best-know-it-all-dads-in-fiction

Hemingway's metafiction

Photo by Robert Capa / Magnum

How often do we spare any thought to the many rewritings an author may execute before he or she is satisfied enough for the work to finally be published. In this recent article from the New Yorker,   Ian Crouch examines the outside influences and the changes made by Hemingway as he worked and reworked The Sun Also Rises http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/hemingways-hidden-metafictions

Sunday binding

Commission to bind a small log book for my husband's boat motor. This is the work in progress.  Final compilation is now in the  press to set and dry overnight. Today has been a damp one so drying will be longer than usual. I'm not a patient person but have learned that if I want it to succeed I have to wait!