Having set the book block aside to ferment, I cast my eyes on the boards/cover. Which is a piece of randomly sprayed chip board. Really... silly. But it was the right size for my silly envelopes so I willy nilly cut it in half and there it is, the cover.
I finally decided to use book cloth on the inside, wrapping to the front. Because it was pretty easy and because I like book cloth. Like duct tape but more clothy, and less ducky. I figured the book block was 20 cm, so I used my handy dandy rules to set the boards apart. I can be a little, shall I say, overly careful about things like this. Really. How important it is for my chipboard/used envelope trash journal. And yet... I measured and remeasured and adjusted.
Silly me.
Next I had a piece of fabric sample that I savagely cut to wrap around the outside of the binding. I used PVA to glue it down. Not because I was sick of Modge Podge.... oh no... but because.... I am a woman of mass indecision at the moment and decided to spread my options. Plus I have PVA and I haven't used it recently.
The part of the fabric sample I used still had a stabling paper on it, but I figured I was all about stabilizing so why not.
Then I weighed it down again. I tried to square up the binding. The signatures aren't sewn in yet, so that will change things. Again, I am in NO WAY recommending the order I'm using as a rational or reasonable or even workable order. Here's hoping it turns out to be workable. I'll be working it tomorrow. Maybe. Or not.
And of course, after I had glued it all in, I thought, what a boring color choice! Why didn't I go for something a little ... sparkier? Contrasty? Interesting?
Some choices you just have to live with. Until you decide to change them. Or not.
