I made these five books over the last couple weekends. What was supposed to be a "quick project" turned out to take much longer than I expected... First the glue took a long time to dry, then I needed to wait for an opportunity to use the cutting equipment, after that I decided to add some machine stitching...
The books were inspired by a project my co-worker was putting together. I used glue to laminate together scraps of decorative paper and bookcloth. Then I folded rough signatures of my own handmade paper. When the covers were dry, I sewed the books together using a quick stitch similar to a pamphlet stitch done with two needles.
The next step was using the paper guillotine to cut the edges, and a corner rounder to add a professional look to the corners. Most of the books came out well. Some of them had some bubbles between the bookcloth and the paper. I think this was from using the last of my PVA... it had gotten much thicker than I had realized. I tried to machine stitch some of the covers to correct (read: cover up) the bubbles, but that didn't completely hide them. So I called them done. One of these days I will try again with my new, thinner batch of PVA!
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