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finished binding my new sketchbook! first time doing a decorative pattern for the coptic binding instead of straight lines but i learned a lot from it

gnome place like it sticker designed by @elle-arts

stan and ford stickers designed by @sovonight

#artists on tumblr #book binding #gravity falls #coptic stitch binding #book arts #i love making sketchbooks #and i love the stickers so much!#makes me excited to draw

My first fanbinding project is complete!! I'm just a wee lad getting my toes wet in bookbinding, but it has brought me so much joy so far. I think this is one of the most powerful ways to validate & celebrate an author's work and I CANNOT WAIT to do more to honour the huge amounts of talent in this fandom.

Thank you @apatheticbutterflies for your wonderful, wonderful words. Never stop.

Next up: a very special project for Rusty Quill Big Bang 2022 <33

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I needed something to make… so I picked out an old project I’ve put aside for months and made the covers I delayed it for with poster paper… just a small sketchbook, plain paper, some newspaper in it. Might use it as a journal, dunno. I like making these, wanted more practice. There’s a YouTube channel by Christine Guenard that puts out good tutorials on different binding techniques if you’re interested in this.

update: I finished this and ended up giving it to my mom. Kpop Demon Hunters inspired her to pick up drawing again and she needed a sketchbook that she could use comfortably. I'm glad it'll get used, she was very happy to receive it!

#sketchbook #Coptic stitch binding #diy book binding #chronsrambles

Some time early 2021 I had the errant thought, "what if I learned how to bind books?"

Half a minute later, I was looking up tutorials on youtube and rifling through my paper and sewing supplies. For my very first and second attempts, I used youtuber SeaLemon's tutorial for coptic stitch binding, which you can see above has an open spine and doesn't need glue - a pretty good place to start. My first attempt (above) was definitely very rough, took me a minute to get the hang of tension etc.

My second attempt (below) was a bit more successful. You can see the paper signatures are sitting more nicely in that second photo.

For book two, I managed to track down some pre-waxed thread and curved needles - which aren't necessary, but definitely make life a lot easier. The waxed thread is actually quite bulky I found, so while it is pretty good for this style of binding, it's not something I've used a lot for later books.

About a month later, I took both of these books apart and recombined the signatures into one book. I decorated the covers, and actually used crochet cotton that I waxed myself for the binding stitches. It makes for a good sketch book as this style of binding lets the book sit quite flat :)