weekly crafting summary

[ehyde]

Still working on bookbinding, working now on two different projects - the first one is suffering from second sock syndrome, as I'm making a copy for myself and a copy for the author. I did most of the work in parallel, but the cover is embroidered, and - originally I was working on the second project because I wanted to do part of it while my sister is visiting, but it soon became clear I wasn't going to get to that step before she had to leave, but I kept working on that book because it was more fun than embroidery.

But I did learn some new things! Sister taught me some resin craft, and I made a few dice. I'm going to make a translucent resin window in a book cover, in theory, so this was color testing for that - but I learned that fountain pen ink does not work to color resin.

I also learned that tracing paper/vellum cannot be pasted down without excessive wrinkles, so my original plan of using it to make made endpapers had to be scrapped. But in the process I also learned that mulberry tissue paper (unryu paper) behaves beautifully pasted down, so I ended up with a result I liked even better than my original plan.

And tonight I went back to the embroidery! It's slightly closer to being finished.