Beat the quilting desires (for now) by sewing a little junk book.
Assembling the signatures. The yellow paper makes up the bulk of the book; it's the last dozen or so tea-stained pages of a yellow notepad. The rest is some green tissue paper I found and immediately saved, a drawing I did on the back of some job training stuff, cut up trader Joe's paper bag, and a stanped parchment paper bag from a store that I kept largely intact, so it can still hold things.
Ive sewn a lot of chapbooks in my time but just single signature ones as far as I recall. So the signature sewing went fine and the part where I sewed the signatures together went not as well. But it's a junk book, who cares. And I learned valueable lessons like 'even stitches actually matter now just on a structural level' and 'why would you do this with a fan pointed at you'.
Its 46 pages long. The cover is a sparkling canned water box I cut up with bits from the only newspaper I am subscribed to (thru my union), which is a union newspaper. The cover decoration is what I thought was the most interesting article that neatly fit--Amazon union joins Teamster.
I did everything in a very backwards order and put myself in a position where I needed to glue like 20 sticky notes to this thing, and then realized I actually don't have to, and didn't. It would look nicer if I had, but I'm glad I didn't. That's the exact opposite point of this kind of book.
Funnily enough the only thing I didn't add, out of these random scraps I found/saved but hadn't packed yet (I have tons of bits of interesting paper, all of it packed right now) was the one piece that made me do this book anyway; a baffler subscription sticky note that has a stamp of a shoe on a banana peel. I thought it wasn't bad. No idea where it went tho; may well have been one of the sticky notes I folded up and used to spread the glue. Oh well.
It wasn't intended to be labor themed, but at least it's relevant. Idk what I'll write in it, if anything. Good detour altho I didn't really have time for it. I like it though.
