cover, theme is pictures and descriptions
Nothing like cutting it close is there? Postmark date for this project is April 30th, so I've actually got 6 days, right?
Once started it was 'easy peasy' until I made the BIG MISTAKE. Que pasa? Well . . . each page consists of a photo (or photos), all taken with my Iphone, collaged onto card stock, which I then sew onto the actual blank page. After several spreads everything was going great and I was on a roll gleefully sewing (feeling quite pleased with myself and my new Bernina - another story). I finished attaching the collage to the page and then - to my horror - realized that I'd sewn the remaining book pages AND back cover to the page I was working on! And we're not talking about a few stitches - we're talking straight stitch and zigzag and LOTS of thread and about 1/3 of the book!
inside cover and page 1
Plan B - I added pages - using the "waterfall" accordion-fold method-remember old postcard books? (which I'm teaching at LOJ on May 5 at Edmonds Community College). Everything worked out and I feel OK about my mistake. Hopefully they'll be able to read the barcode on the back cover! :) Here are more of the pages . . .
the back of each sewn page contains a portion of a map
love these papier mache heads from Lucca this is the page before
THE BIG MISTAKE (fortunately I hadn't decorated the back yet)
THE BIG MISTAKE (fortunately I hadn't decorated the back yet)
THE BIG MISTAKE
the back of the "heads" page and beginning the "waterfall" folds
unfolded in its "waterfall" glory
the backside of the accordion folds and THE BIG MISTAKE
edges - all tucked back together
back cover - zigzags on the barcode, the white paper was my stamping/coloring test sheet
