2nd Sewn-on-the-Spine

2nd Sewn-on-the-Spine finished and no blood was lost!

This is a sewn-on-the-spine book with 4 signatures of different papers (scraps and leftover bits of other papers) and two fold-outs, finished book size 6" wide x 7.5" tall (signature size is 5 x 7"), and a zigzag stitch. I almost made the same measuring mistake as before at the hinges (3/16 vs 3/8) but caught myself just in time. The edge overhangs are still a bit wide ~3/4" but that makes it easy to hold I'm telling myself. I had to make a minor adjustment to the spine templates and ended up shortening the zigs at the top and bottom of the spine and that looks fine too. 

I used book cloth on the inside spine as Roz showed in the webinar and I'm keeping that practice forever; I can't see any downside to that and it takes away one level of anxiety (ripping endpaper) when punching holes and sewing. I put my decorative fabric on the wrong board and it's upside down from what I had originally planned and I think it's better. The colors are a bit more vivid than how they photographed. It's my sunny-scrappy book! Bookcloth is the Duo from Talas and is the color sunshine; it's an orange warp and a yellow weft and is maybe a bit gaudy but very cheerful. 

Also a photo of my cat watching Roz. She likes to watch TV and usually I only let her watch squirrel or mouse YouTube shows but she was watching the webinar with me and especially liked it when Roz waved her hands around! 

(this one I gave to Sarah, my best clairvoyant to what I'm saying and wonderful student worker)