I'm going to try and make one. It would make a great Christmas present for my art teacher. You could also turn this into a really cute agenda just get a different kind of paper.
So I'm trying to make one for myself, but I've run into one key problem.
I love to have something under my paper when I'm writing. It's to prevent the utensil from feeling likes it is falling through the page, right? So how does your design hold up in that area? And any advice on how I could fix this in mine? I was debating attaching a piece of 1/16th inch maple wood in there somewhere, but I don't know where I'd be able to attach it while still being able to fit it between pages.
thanks -Angelo
Would leather not work? It'd b easy to attach a leather flap like the plastic one in a checkbook with duplicates. Shop around, maybe u can find a stiffer material/vinyl u can't hole punch/stich. They hav flexible but stiff plastic@craft store like that...it's transparent n I can't think of what it's for, quilt templates maybe
hmmmm... ya know, I don't remember! I guess if you're worried about them being too far apart, you could make them with fewer pages in them and just sew them in closer to each other. I probably would squish mine a bit more next time around to it's a little tighter.
this is so cool!
i am fascinated by books (blank ones especially) and making them, and this is such a good job!
when you flip the pages are there big gaps between the signatures?
Blackbird - it was 1.10 for the whole pack. I got it in the art section of my craft store (not the scrapbook part) where all the construction paper and big notepads are.
where the heck did you find paper that cheep?!?! or was each piece a $1.10? i love the look of this by the way! i'm wanting to do something simalar but as a cover for a note book, something that can be taken off, and placed on a different one, just trying to figure out how to do that...
Truthfully, I'm fascinated. It looks... gothic and old with an awesome elegance. That probably makes absolutely no scense, but that journal is wicked sweet.
This.
is.
amazing.
And I LOVE you for posting a How-To, because I've always wanted to have a journal like this, but the ready-to-buy ones never fit my taste.
I can't get over how awesome this is, really. I soso hope I can remake this.
Knittin' Kitten - yeah, each signature was sewn in one at a time. here's a website I found helpful when sewing the signatures in. I didn't do mine the same way (I did more than 3 signatures so I didn't skip any rows and then go back - just worked my way across going up and down the spine), but the basic sewing is what I did as far as the holes I used: http://www.teeshamoore.com/how_to_make_journals.htm
Geslepen - I am, come to think of it... ;) kidding, I just know she'd appreciate something handmade and I really don't know what else to get her that wouldn't be "just another gift"... ya know?
this is amazing. i'm totally making these for xmas presents for every member of my family. i had better get started. hope you don't mind? and thanks so much for the inspiration and a very helpful how-to
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I love to have something under my paper when I'm writing. It's to prevent the utensil from feeling likes it is falling through the page, right? So how does your design hold up in that area? And any advice on how I could fix this in mine? I was debating attaching a piece of 1/16th inch maple wood in there somewhere, but I don't know where I'd be able to attach it while still being able to fit it between pages.
thanks -Angelo
i am fascinated by books (blank ones especially) and making them, and this is such a good job!
when you flip the pages are there big gaps between the signatures?
it looks so old and lovelyy
am going to make one as soon as i get some leather
thanks! x
is.
amazing.
And I LOVE you for posting a How-To, because I've always wanted to have a journal like this, but the ready-to-buy ones never fit my taste.
I can't get over how awesome this is, really. I soso hope I can remake this.
http://www.teeshamoore.com/how_to_make_journals.htm
What a great way to use up some of reclaimed (read: garbage picked) leather!
I wouldn't use leather [being all vegetarian and crap