Binding Textblocks

18 months ago, I bought 10 textblocks all ready for binding into notebooks. They are not sewn but glued. My intention was to bind them and give them as Christmas presents. That is still true but four of them have served another function. I have done them in a double binding as practise for binding Cider with Rosie. The first sample I used as a notebook for my auriculas (completed ten days ago). Three more were completed this evening.

Book cloth is used for the spine and paperbacked cotton for the showy bits. The outer two are just bought quilter's cotton but the central one was created by me at one of Raymer Gilman's classes, gold paint and all. She is a wonderful teacher. On one occasion she spotted me from the other side of the class holding up a piece of cloth and looking mournful and she yelled, 'Don't throw it out. Use it as a starting point for a new piece'. Quite something.

I reckon I am now ready to bind Cider with Rosie and will start tomorrow.

No remarks about health and there are not going to be any more. You, dear readers, must be as fed-up with the topic as I am.