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A Clear Midnight Revisited

Posted on July 5, 2020 by

With July 7, the beginning of Tanabata celebrations in Japan, still a couple of days away, I thought I would re-post one of my favourite previous Tanabata projects, a DIY star-themed artist’s book from 2018. An accordion with interlocked diamond-shaped … Continue reading →

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Three thousand seven hundred and eighty

Posted on May 31, 2020 by

One of the mental games I played this week was doing arithmetic in my head, so I know that is the number of stitches it took to complete the designs on the little coloured panels for the nine versions of … Continue reading →

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Chinese Checkers aren’t from China

Posted on March 29, 2020 by

I have been working on an artist’s book for the March #areyoubookenough_hexagon challenge on Instagram. It includes a game of Chinese Checkers. In doing some research I discovered that Chinese Checkers are not Chinese at all.

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Byopia Press Advent Calendar 2019: Day Seven and a Little Star Book

Posted on December 7, 2019 by

Today’s post re-visits a post from May of last year. It seemed fitting to include it in this year’s Advent calendar since it starts with squares, is square when closed, and can be used as a Christmas ornament.

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It works, it works!

Posted on October 20, 2019 by

Last week I showed the first stages in designing an artist’s book using a hexatetraflexagon — a square flexagon with six faces. The project is complete, although there was a point at which I had my doubts.

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A Possible Fan/Book

Posted on July 14, 2019 by

The title says “Possible” because I successfully made a fan/book that met my requirements this week, but I think it is only a solution and not necessarily the solution. I have continued working with the basic format that I showed … Continue reading →

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Sunday Mini Book Two

Posted on September 30, 2018 by

This week’s DIY artist’s book is Dreaming made Easy by Judith Hoffman. It’s one of those one-page books: I posted one called IF in June of 2015.

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Sunday Mini Book One

Posted on September 23, 2018 by

As I mentioned last week, I am on holiday in England. I have prepared a post on making your own miniature book for each Sunday that I am away. I will post about other things if and when I can. … Continue reading →

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Cover for A Clear Midnight

Posted on July 8, 2018 by

Last week’s post contained the instructions for making A Clear Midnight, and a link to a printable pdf of the parts. This week you can make a cover for the book.

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A Clear Midnight

Posted on July 1, 2018 by

It is once again time to offer a DIY artist’s book in celebration of the anniversary of this blog: four years this coming Saturday. Since July 7 is also the beginning of Tanabata celebrations in Japan, the book is star-themed. … Continue reading →

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