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I’m gonna do nine patches and bordered squares and put them on point.

I saw a photo of something similar in creams and reds a long time ago and took a screen shot of it, and saw it while I was scrolling through my ‘Quilts to Make’ file. Decided to pull these out and give it a go.

No idea what size it’ll end up, but if I stick to 6x7 blocks with a border it should end up about 64”x72” I think. Which is a nice throw size to cuddle on the couch with.

Of course…

Not enough to make bigger, I think more contrast between the two fabrics would look even better, but this will make a lovely couch quilt!

She ended up 70”x85”, which is a pretty nice twin if a bit short, but it would also layout on a queen with little overhang if someone was looking for a display kind of quilt.

I have a dark teal cotton in mind for backing and Robin’s Egg blue for the quilting thread, which is basically the same colour as the light blue fabric.

Had to continue the space theme with the quilting. Pattern is called Interstellar and I did use Robin’s Egg thread on the top and a medium light grey on the back so you could see the stars and swirls on the backing.

I did end up using the constellation fabric for the binding and love the way it looks against the border.

Ficbinding: All-Consuming by ratbones

This is a Guardian zombie apocalypse AU! I'm using @helle-bored's typeset, which had a very neat stenciled/stamped aesthetic. The binding was loosely inspired by the Antarctic-published books that were bound in boards from wooden crates, but I went my own direction with the concept (in part because I wanted to practice sewing on cord with my sewing frame).

I had originally intended to give the wood a natural grayish weathered look (while I have lots of scrap wood in the basement, I didn't have anything suitable that had been sitting outside for years) but the iron acetate & tea combo that I treated the wood with had a much stronger effect than expected. I'm a fan of how it turned out though!

Something different from my normal bookbinding here! This was a gift for my dad, it's a copy of my great-great-grandfather's civil war diary. I bound it in a softcover leather longstitch binding. The stitching around the edge looks kind of like a blanket stitch, but it's actually an edge binding originally intended to be worked in leather lacing, and has more of a braided look to it if you look at it from the edge.

My family doesn't have the original copy of this diary anymore--I was working from a scan of a typewritten copy that was made a generation or two after the original, I'm not sure exactly when. Pieces of the diary feel like they were written after the fact, not day-of, and I frequently found myself wishing I could see what the original pages looked like.

I added a pocket to hold several maps, because they were very helpful to me (not a civil war history buff in the slightest) to put what my ancestor was doing into a larger context. The maps are by Hal Jesperson.

Fun fact I didn't know before making this book: my ancestor's unit was the first to open fire at the battle of Gettysburg! There's a monument to his unit at Gettysburg, so I included a photo of that in the book as well.

👻 KARMA CODE | 因果 👻

my endpaper illustrations for the Illumicrate editions of Song of the Lioness ✨