See what my sister, Mary Jo, gave me for my birthday recently! A couple of years ago we went to a book arts workshop in Asheville. I blogged about it here. Daniel Essig taught the workshop, and we made wooden Coptic books. It was lots of fun, but so far I haven’t done much to follow up. Mary Jo decided to refresh her memory and make another one, just not with wooden covers, and I was the lucky beneficiary.
We met last weekend — she’s in central Florida, 4 hours away — and exchanged book making supplies. I had bought book board, she had ordered Cave paper and rolls of Oriental paper for book cloth backing. I got to see the book she’s working on now. It incorporates 15 or 20 quilt blocks that she made when we went up to Montreat for a week in 2001. It’s an interesting structure which involves a base page on which the quilt square is sewn plus an extension that wraps around and becomes a frame which also connects to the next page. She had finished the text block and I was bringing her book board she needs to do the covers. I can’t wait to see what it looks like finished.