Dear Everyone ~

I continue to be in the thrilling throes of assembling kits & shipping parcels for my two upcoming group workshops via Zoom: Screw-post binder with see-through window and Triptych of Coptic-stitch Bindings. As of today I have shipped several armfuls of kits (and tools) for students who will be making screw-post binders and/or trios of Coptic-stitch books. Several students are taking both workshops, so their parcels are well on their way. I felt truly intercontinental as I prepared shipping labels for Canada, Austria, Arctic Norway, and…Singapore! I don’t even know how many time zones are involved here, but I love that we will all be together for our papery pursuits.

In the Triptych of Coptic-stitch Bindings, we will make a trio of books, all the same size, each with its own stitching variation—and different needles for everywhich stitch! So that the books make a lovely set, we will cover them in three colour-coordinated Cambridge Imprint patterns. I had a wonderful time devising the first three palettes: Daydream, Seascape, and Sorbets. I’ve just come up with two new palettes, Gray-dations and Giverny, because Seascape and Sorbets have sold out. Yet again, I reveled to realize that the Cambridge combinations of papery permutations…are marvels of mix-and-matchmaking. The Gray-dations palette strikes me as autumnal, and the Giverny as summery. (Nota bene: A handful of Daydream kits are still available.) You can read more about the workshop, the book structure, and the kitful of materials here. And if you’ve been dillying or dallying about signing up, you are not too late to receive your very own kit forthwith, in time for November 5!

I'm looking forward to making books with you soonish!

Triptych of Coptic-stitch Bindings

Coptically but not cryptically, Bari