Book Binding

The discovery of book binding - my solution to buying pretty note books in stationary shops!

My attempt at stab-binding

Wow!  I was given a weekend course on bookbinding as my Christmas present this year.  So last weekend, I trotted off at 9.15 for two days of creative bliss!  I loved it, it was a very satisfying craft to learn as you could make so much in a very short space of time. It is fairly straightforward to get the hang of and it was a weekend meeting new lovely people and having the chance to immerse myself into something creative and forget life around me for a little time - very relaxing!  So I no longer have an excuse to lurk in beautiful stationery shops stocking up on lovely note books - I can make them and they make fantastic presents: photo albums, picture-books, sketch-books and note-books etc...
I recommend it:  The one I went to was at a local printing workshop called The Red Hot Press: www.redhotpress.org.uk,  but I am sure they are dotted about all over the place.

My collection of hard-bound binding