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why certainly!

The typeset was optimized for Legal Tiny (pictured below), but works for Letter Sextodecimal as well (pictured above)

The inner margins are a bit tight, which means I highly recommend the approach of folding the folio centers first and then nesting them/putting the fore-edge creases in last. It's 1,000 pages (63 signatures) that are very small and should not be prematurely seperated - I trimmed every Tigger v1 signature by hand right before I'd sew it in. Owl & Rabbit were trimmed on a pro bindery guillotine and Tigger v2 is about to be chisel trimmed in my Tony Firman press via multiple passes/sections -- wish me luck 😅

There's something so very pleasing about holding the form. Just finished sewing Tigger v2 and was playing with it this morning- A joked I was an Ant Queen and it was my larva. So cute and bug like!

a year ago the Renegade Retreat was starting it was a good time with people but a dark & stressful time in life still hard to fully look back on highlights remain tablet weaving and seeing books in real life (and walking away with a few of them!)

As part of this year's Binderary I lead an absolutely un-recorded "Altered Art Mini Bind-Along" - was it fun? For me, yes? For others, maybe?

nothing like a travel deadline to motivate some over-ambitious work...

Am thrilled to once again co-cheerlead with Lark [Frog Eye Press] @renegadeguild's annual curation of bad ideas edible "Books"! The only rules are (1) it has to vaaaaguely be "book"ish in nature and (2) you have to take a bite out of it

And my entry, for which I conveniently timed a delightful Renegade meetup in order to inflict it upon others. I remain impressed with how fun hanging out with these folks proves to be.

Shout out to Lark who continues to provide our super-rad prizes. I remain a corrupting influence on the server as this is the one "competition"/"competitive" event amongst the selection of other collaborative, gifting, educational, and/or generous activities put on year round.

{ you can find the slide deck of entries w/ link to vote here }

Happy π day!!

Passed the 1 year mark a couple days ago for the Villainous Imposer Program -- my bookbinding imposition tool. Gave a talk on it for Binderary over on the @renegadeguild Discord but realized I never posted about it here...? It's not exactly beginner friendly, but I find it damn useful. Took what I learned contributing to bookbinder-js and re-wrote things from scratch to support all the power features and impositions I could possibly want. (it's basically a free fancy web page)

The goal this year is to dial in addressing printer skew -- I don't know how to do it yet, but that's the fun of a challenging goal, no? I just really want at home text block printing to look as polished as possible. Am also thrilled that my cry for help during the talk actually rallied aid (bless Lele of @gildingthelelepress!! 🙏) and there will be folding animations 'soon' for the various configs.

There's some really gorgeous books on display (and for sale) at CODEX this year. Was allowed to peek at a couple through the macro lens. Quality of craftsmanship stunning at this scale -- Sue Doggett's beading really caught my eye, her complexity of stitching and covering of the fish leather parchment onlay(?) is 👌👌👌 big fan of the overlayed textures

Karen Hanmer's materials were very exciting to see up close and I really enjoy the cohesion of Kate Holland's whole 'head' situation- gold to leather and all the shades of red... am sad that the neat shattered glass cover didn't work with macros

Twas lovely seeing several @renegadeguild folks out and about. Book stuff -- good times