Happy hammering...

The holes are ready for the twisted paper to be threaded through, tied off, and hammered down flat.

(oh, that is a bread board - don't underestimate how effective these awls are! I know I won't...again!)

First stage of the first book

24 sheets of cartridge paper separated by 23 sheets of infuriating tissue paper, stacked and clamped with bulldog clips, and marked in anticipation of my banging out some of my tissue paper frustrations on it >:) !

Also my awl, a hammer (thanks Felicity), and a strip of the leftover tissue paper which will be twisted into a strong thin string and used to stabilise the book in advance of the cover being put on and my getting the hammer out again!

Cutting tissue paper

Voila: tissue paper, craft knife, a template, the finished result, and the leftovers which I will be recycling, but......cutting tissue paper is HARD! I wanted to have a sheet of tissue paper between each of my pages of cartridge, to give the impression of this being a serious...if tiny!...sketch-book, but it took an age and raised my blood pressure uncomfortably - so that's the end of the serious sketch book angle!

And as it happened, after all that work I had only produced enough for one little book, so I used it up and marked it down as a lesson learnt...