Cord Bound Books -Part One

Would you like to learn how to make cord bound books? Throughout the month I'll be posting tutorials on leather work in bookbinding as well as how to do the cord bound books. The first step in any book is designing the book and gathering materials. You can see the beginnings of that below :)

I'm currently making two cord bound books for a woman named Lori. She's getting married in the Turks and Caicos Islands and she's using that as a theme for the wedding. The video below shows the Leather that will be used for each book (Aqua leather on the memory book and Gold leather for the sign in book) and it shows the stamps that will be used in the design on the cover and throughout the book. In the next video, I'll show the maps that will be used as endpapers and on the inset on the covers.



The books will be a little bigger than 9 x 12 as the pages were torn down to be 9" x 12", my husband Daniel cut all that paper down for me :)

The sign in book has 100 pages and the larger book has 200 pages (or 400 sides)

HUGE BOOKS! In fact, the memory book will actually end up being about 6-7 inches thick as I still have to put spacers in the spine. Maybe Lori will opt for two (still large and thick) memory books instead of the massive one?

Show this Weekend

I have so many excuses for not posting recently but really...there's no excuse. I'll do better. For all of you I have yet to email about the classes, stay tuned. I'll be posting more information about that mid December. For now, if you have a book style you really want to learn, please leave a comment and I'll take that into consideration as I'm setting up the workshops and classes. :)

This week I'll be in Utah County again. See the ad below and come visit me. This will be the last craft show of the year and probably for a while since I'll be teaching come January.

Check out my books this weekend!

Crazy Daisy Holiday Boutique
at Olson's greenhouse in Lehi
1133 N 3200 W, Lehi 84043

The boutique is November 12, 13 and 14th.
Which is this Thursday - Saturday
Open 9am-7pm

Santa will be visiting on Sat the 14th from 9:30am to 11:00am
They will also be taking donations for the Utah food bank.

I'll be in and out but I will definitely be there when Santa is!

The books from my Etsy shop (www.karleighjae.etsy.com) will be there, as well as new rustic leather books for $15!

Come and do some Holiday Shopping and Buy Handmade! :)

Autumn Craft Fairs

We've been busy preparing books for the four shows we will be at in the next few months. The first one is October 16th and 17th! Please come visit me if you're in the Utah County area that weekend, as I'll be sitting at the booth all day both days.

**EDIT: Friday's time has been changed below. It closes at 7pm rather than 9pm.

The Courtlin Domestics Fall Gift and Craft Show

Location: Veterans Memorial Building

389 N Main Street, Spanish Fork, UT.

Dates: Friday, Oct. 16th and Saturday, Oct. 17th

Hours: Friday 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.

Check it out!

Daniel and I just finished a few custom orders for large longstitch books. I absolutely love them. It seems others do too because we've sold a couple and even had one on the front page of Etsy! In fact, I've been on Etsy's front page featured items four times this month.

I know this because of Craftcult.com which holds a vault of all the treasury lists and items that make it to the front page. You can even do a search of your etsy username to find the lists that you've been in on the front page. I love it. This list tells me that I've been on Etsy's front page featured items 18 times since April.