Handbinding project: The Lay of Looking Glass Land by @entirelytookeen
Again?? Yes. After two years I finally got around to making a personal copy.
This was my first attempt at a flexible leather binding with raised cords. It went... okay. I spent most of the time thinking "this is stupid I'm never doing this again", and then when I finished I thought, "but now I know a bunch of things that could go better." And now I want to try it again. Probably after I forget how much I hate untwining leather.
This was also my first time using leather onlays as a book cover. I cut out the shapes with a cricut, pasted them to the cover leather, then flipped it over and shaved away at the back so that it would lie flat.
Progress pictures under the cut
Release the kraken!!!!
Untwining the twine.
Boards laced on
The spine leather under the Get-Along sock and with strings holding down the leather around the raised cords on my shitty improved tying-down board. I should have moved the screws much farther back to keep the string tight; as it was I had to assist it.
Scraping away the leather underneath the trikru symbol
and the Azgeda handprint. This one was much trickier because of all the little pieces, and because this blue leather is a bitch to pare. Also, at the time I was on an incredibly silly discord call, and kept laughing, which blasted the leather shavings across the room.
look at how fucking flat that cover is though. Look at it!! (this is before i got the dent from something stuck to the foam in the press, RIP.)
If you want an incredibly well written and just fucking superb part 2 to Labyrinth then you MUST read this fic. It's honestly just perfect. I'm going to cherish this story, always.
A Forfeit of Dreams - KL_Morgan
(must have an account to read)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the
Organization for Transformative Works
InDesign Quarantine project 1: The White Queen Running by the great @entirelytookeen (Clarke/Lexa, 120k.)
5.5x8.5″, 373 pages. It was about $9 ordered through Lulu: I’ve uploaded the cover and interior files here if anyone else wants one. I’m still waiting for my test copy of The Red King Awake, but I’ll post the files for that one it gets here.
(Feel free to message me if you have any questions or run into any issues: the website can be a little weird.)
“Were you ever punished?
“Only for faults,” said Alice.
“And you were all the better for it, I know!” the Queen said triumphantly.
“Yes, but then I had done the things I was punished for,” said Alice: “that makes all the difference.”
“But if you hadn't done them,' the Queen said, “that would have been better still; better, and better, and better!”
*
Clarke wakes up wearing the tattoos of the Ice Nation.
“Were you ever punished?
“Only for faults,” said Alice.
“And you were all the better for it, I know!” the Queen said triumphantly.
“Yes, but then I had done the things I was punished for,” said Alice: “that makes all the difference.”
“But if you hadn’t done them,’ the Queen said, “that would have been better still; better, and better, and better!”
*
Clarke wakes up wearing the tattoos of the Ice Nation.
(OR: Soulmates, parallel worlds, and Ice Queen Clarke; oh my. Canon divergent from 2x16.)
