Bookbinding Playing around with DaVinci and Gemini I requested a nun with a smirk on her face in an abandoned village. And got this lady with an uncharacteristic moon hovering above her head, a detail a living artist would not have included. I turned her into a 50-page, A5-ish notebook. The recto page is 10x10mm graph paper. Verso is lined. I used Coptic binding with green thread. The cover has three or four papers from my To Use bin under my workbench. As you can see the cover includes: 1. A very thin towel (called tenugui in Japan) turned into book cloth with the help of fusuma paper and glue with what could be called clouds or waves or fans. They are predominantly blue with shades of white; 2. A red vaguely Indian-designed thicker paper with a delightful design in gold; 3. A light blue slab of book cloth that has been hanging around in my workspace for at least a decade; 4. A dark green book cloth that has accompanied the blue book cloth for its entire life;5. A rabbit offering a monkey a sip of water or about to scrub the monkey’s back (as they’re in water and the monkey has his or her back to the rabbit.) 6. And a red strap with a dandelion-style brush at the end. The back has a similar motif.  The blue fan-shell-cloud cloth is larger; the blue book cloth is thinner; the red & gold cloth is smaller and vertical rather than horizontal; the green book cloth is much bigger; and the monkey is sans rabbit and smaller. All in all, a nice activity that is useful as well. The only change I would make if I were to labor over Grandma again would be to add pages. Fifty is too few. One hundred feels about right. Fiction I continue to be puzzled as I work through The Posthumous Autobiography of the WidowAgnes Grout, Death Weaver. First, this book juggles six major characters (so far) and progresses through about 200 years of life. Agnes, herself, lives to be about 215, mas o menos. I’ve done quite a bit of online research into such topics as women’s underwear and public transportation in the early 1800s.  Video The first video is my gluing up the cover of a French link stitch book. French Link Stitch. The second is a video of me writing Agnes Grout. If you’re a writer, you’ll understand the sentiment in George Stenson: Writing.  Coming soon, I hope, a video of me sewing the French Link Stitch blank notebook. Stay tuned!