Tag: sewing
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Japanese stab binding #53, dancing triangles
I thought about naming this drunken triangles or dizzy triangles. It’s pretty straightforward, especially with only 31 holes to punch.
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Japanese stab binding tutorial: tiara
By popular request, the tiara pattern. Sorry this has taken so long, I’ve had a lot of personal stuff going on and I thought I had lost the pattern instructions and was going to have to recreate them from memory, but I found the paper today, yay! So here it…
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Japanese stab bind #47: lunaria
I took a poll to name this design, and ‘lunaria‘ was decided on, because it (sort of) looks like the seed pods from that particular plant. This bind is probably an advanced intermediate, not because the sewing itself is difficult but because it requires drilling 80 holes! I was proud…
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Japanese stab binding #45 & 46:memories and souvenirs
JSB memories: 57 holes, JSB souvenirs: 51 holes, both straightforward. Hello all! It’s been quite a while since my last bookbinding post, but a lot has happened in the past year. I both completed a masters degree and got married, moved between two continents and three countries, and am still…
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japanese stab binding tutorial: hearts
This is a beginning bind, with an intermediate level of holes (40). If you don’t want the gaps between the hearts, then repeat the steps marked in orange until you have the desired number. When you have reached the end of your line of hearts, wrap the left edge, then…
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japanese stab binding tutorial: dancing snowflakes
This bind has 84 holes, which makes it more complicated than it might be otherwise. Also, holes 24, 44, 64, and 84 need to be much larger than the others because there are 15 threads entering and exiting. The tutorial was a bit complicated to write (though I don’t think…
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japanese stab binding tutorial: maple leaves
The maple leaf pattern tutorial, as requested in the poll! I’d say this one is pretty simple. The instructions for the ‘V’s at the edges are written differently than usual, but I hope it make it a bit easier. *Tip: make holes 1, 14, and 26 a bit larger than…
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japanese stab binding #37: sushi
I’ve been on a spiral kick lately. I was going for cinnamon rolls with this design, but was informed that it looked more like sushi. Later I might try a vertical, ‘stacked’ version so the sushi pattern is more obvious when the book is displayed correctly. But here you go!…
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japanese stab binding tutorial: woven
I’ll be honest, I’ve been working on this tutorial for days. It might be the most convoluted one. I’ve checked and double-checked for errors. If you find one, leave a comment and I’ll fix it as soon as I can. But ‘woven’ is not that difficult to sew once you…
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japanese stab binding #29: mushrooms
Another intermediate bind.