Finished Non-Fiber Object

I finally got to work on the coptic binding book I had started a couple of weeks ago. The covers are cereal box cardboard covered with Japanese printed paper that I bought at the stamp convention back around Memorial Day. The directions for the binding were, natch, on the web. I used way too much thread. My advice to anyone who wants to try this project is to be more careful estimating the lenght of thread to use, and not use way too much. It’s just awfully slow pulling excess thread through all the holes. The other suggestion I have is to use a rubber band or binder clip to hold signatures that are already bound out of the way. Here are the results —