Book-binding, Day 1

[wiseheart]

So, I collected my courage today and started the book-bindig project. To give you an idea, I'm in this phase right now:

With the not-so-significant difference that I work with felt, instead of cotton fabric, and do all the sewing by hand, as my tiny 20x20 cm sewing machine would break beyond repair if I tried to push 4-5 layers of hard felt through it.

So far, I've bound 2 pages out of six. But I think I've figured out (again!) how the whole method works, so I hope I'll be able to finish it this week. (The funny thing is, I've already made a book like this half a year ago, but managed to forget how the binding works. Typical.) After that, only the little extras are left, but those I can do one by one while watching telly.

Off now to do some more translating, but I might be back later. There isn't much of a social life outside of LJ for me in these days.

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It's an interesting project, for sure, but time-consuming, too.
You can see the individual pages here (https://hu.pinterest.com/ekunster/my-own-felt-work/my-quiet-books/). Of course, they aren't trimmed yet on these pictures.

The finished book will look format-wise like this one:

(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/60/21/06/60210604949c9febf05a7a9a773ec268.jpg)

Only trimmed with pink as it's made for two girls, 4.5 and 2 year olds. The maritime book was made for the 4-year-old son of my goddaugher.