A Day of Useful Books

There is nothing better than having a pocket sized notebook at the ready for grocery lists or thrilling ideas for your next spy novel UNLESS it is having 2 different notebooks to chose from. Join us for a full day where we will make two different pocket-sized notebooks that you will be able to use immediately and have the skills to make more as soon as you get home. In the morning we will make a soft leather covered 5.5” x 4.5” Long Stitch bound sketchbook filled with 120 pages of 80# multimedia paper. In the afternoon we will dye book papers with tea and learn the Perfect Binding (a glued binding used in paperback books) to create a perfect 3.5” x 5” journal with a button and twinned linen thread closure. Instructor will provide a tool kit for class use

Level: Beginning

Materials fee: $40

Instructor provided materials: Handouts and patterns all book papers, endpapers, covers and leather All thread, glues, buttons, etc. Use of tool kit for class all tea dyeing equipment -trays, brushes etc. All supplies needed to make sketchbook 

Student should bring: sharp regular sized sewing scissors 

Members: $ 100

Non Members: $ 120

Instructor: bio Chad Alice Hagen