Sketch books 3 and 4

Hopefully the black and grey one will look less lumpy around the binding once I've pressed it for a while. Otherwise, that's all my sketch-book blocks used up (and my patience with the 'strings' for closing them - I have no faith that any of them will last, but sshh!)

Sketch Book - uh oh!

Getting dark, but it was worth it - canvas cover, book block, and back board are now one! Yay!

Overnight I weighted it down under a mountain of books, which is a good idea in theory to iron out any lumps or bumps....

...But a bad idea if you accidentally turn up a corner as you are putting it away, and it comes out the next morning with a definite crease :(

Also, the binding doesn't look as well at the back, over the board - getting the awl through the 3 different layers may have skewed it slightly and put out the symmetry...I will see if I like it better later!

Sketch books

4 canvas covers, 4 small sketch book-blocks, and getting ready to cut 4 pieces of board to use as back covers.

Final tally for the day: 4 small sketch book blocks, 1 big kids book block.

The kiddies book is alternate pink and white sugar paper sheets, and hopefully I will do the same with blue and white sheets, just to cover my bases!

(Really, is it just me who finds those stacked sheets beautiful?! I'm sure it's normal...right?!)

Next: to get them covered...