Thursday 23 January 2014

Books! (or some of the books I made recently)

So, I didn’t post from July 1st until December.  Life was so very busy last year – especially after April, when the Building Project really got going. 

That doesn’t mean I didn’t make any books for my business though.  I had a number of commissions – mainly for wedding books – and made several other books too.  In September I taught a one-day workshop at the local quilting shop.  We made felt-covered journals, with embroidered covers. The ladies did some lovely work. 

I had quite a busy bookbinding year, in fact: 2013_Favourites_2_12x12_16_photo_grid
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These are some of the books I made over the year…
 
In the last couple of months, I’ve made mostly notebooks and journals.  Many have had covers of wool felt, or of leather.

Wool Felt Journals

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Forest Bird Journal. 
 
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Mauve Wool Felt Journal.
 
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Button-Embellished Journal 

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Red Felt Journal with Holly Fabric

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Blue Iris Felt Journal
 
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Purple Peacock Feather Journal
 

Leather Books

I made so many leather books this year… it would take ages to describe them all! So I’m not going to do that just now… I will just post a few photos instead.

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Black Leather “Dear Heart” Journal
 
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 Cream Leather Journal
 
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Red leather journal with cream strap fastening. 
 
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Assortment of Leather Books
 
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Longstitch Journal in Wine Suede and Black Leather
 
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Longstitch Journal in soft Red Leather with natural edge detail
 
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Cream Leather Journal with fancy Longstitch & strap fastening with handmade button
 
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Large Cream Leather Guestbook with red marbled lining paper, Small Red Leather Journal

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These are books I have made in recent weeks:
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 Deep Green Leather Journal with strap and pen-holder, decorative bead on fastening.
 
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Deep Green Leather Journal with pink strap fastening, decorative longstitch binding and red patterned paper lining (I love this!)
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Deep Wine-Red Leather Chapbook, with cream pages. Cover is unlined (suede inside)
 
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Deep Pink Leather Chapbook with ribbon page-markers. Lined with hand-marbled paper by Rhonda Miller. Cream pages.
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Scarlet Leather Journal Cover (for ready-made refill), with red-spotted lining/end-papers
 
There are a lot of photos here already, so I didn’t want to post any more to show more details. 
However, if you’re interested in seeing more of these books, you can go and see the photos I have at my Facebook Page:

https://www.facebook.com/LizzieMade?ref=tn_tnmn#!/LizzieMade/photos_albums – This will take you to the general “Albums” list and you can choose which album(s) to look at!
 
I hope you’ve enjoyed having a look at what I have been doing.  Usually I’ve posted stuff as I went along, but there’s been so little time in the past few months, that I just couldn’t manage that.
 
Thanks for looking!

10 comments:

  1. What a cornucopia of beautiful books, Lizzie! So many ... As I scrolled down, I thought "Ooo, that's my favourite!" and then "Oh no, THAT one is", and then "Aah, but THIS one is stunning ..." You are an extraordinarily talented lady :).

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    1. Thank You, Alexa! How very nice of you. As I went through the books I've made, I was rather amazed by just how many I had managed to squeeze into a crazy-busy year! I'm not sure whether I could pick out just one favourite either - I really liked several of them very much.

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  2. No wonder you've had no time to blog!!..what a wonderful collection...I THINK the last one might be my favourite!
    Alison xx

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  3. What a wonderful collection - agreeing that it's no wonder you've been too busy to blog. I like the felted covers, so tactile.

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  4. Your work is just exquisite, Lizzie. So beautiful!!!

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  5. Thanks everyone, it makes me smile to read your comments!

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  6. Lizzie, you have such a talent. Beautiful beautiful books.

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  7. Brilliant books - you are so clever!

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  8. A lovely selection to showcase your talents Lizzie. I particularly like the leather bound volumes.

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