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:

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

 

 

 

 

 

Forest Bird Journal. 

 

 

 

 

Mauve Wool Felt Journal.

 

Button-Embellished Journal 

Red Felt Journal with Holly Fabric

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blue Iris Felt Journal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Black Leather “Dear Heart” Journal

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Cream Leather Journal

 

Red leather journal with cream strap fastening. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assortment of Leather Books

 

Longstitch Journal in Wine Suede and Black Leather

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Longstitch Journal in soft Red Leather with natural edge detail

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cream Leather Journal with fancy Longstitch & strap fastening with handmade button
 

 

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:

 

 

 Deep Green Leather Journal with strap and pen-holder, decorative bead on fastening.

 

 

 

Deep Green Leather Journal with pink strap fastening, decorative longstitch binding and red patterned paper lining (I love this!)

 

 

 

Deep Wine-Red Leather Chapbook, with cream pages. Cover is unlined (suede inside)

 

 

 

 

 

Deep Pink Leather Chapbook with ribbon page-markers. Lined with hand-marbled paper by Rhonda Miller. Cream pages.

 

 

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!