Bookbinding Gone Wrong!

Eons ago I made a book block on tapes but hadn't made a set of covers. When I saw yesterday that the weekly challenge at Inspiration Avenue was Books I thought well I can just quickly finish the covers, attach the tapes to the cover, be done with it and post it like I had worked for days on end. Ha! I had also made fake leather out of a paper bag using a top secret recipe. I knew I wanted to use that to cover some mat board for the book covers. Well the twill tape I had used was polyester so glue didn't stick to the tape or the fake leather cover and the edges frayed. So I pulled out the tapes from the 3 groups of stitching.

Another dumb thing I did was to endpaper the inside of the covers with a nice diamond pattern paper. I didn't want to glue the first and last pages of the book block down over the nice paper to attach the covers that way so what to do?! I took a deep breath and cut those two pages and then glued them down like I really meant to do that all along! I think I actually like how it looks... a book rising from the covers or a book melting into the covers, take your pick.

Unfortunately the spine feels flimsy and really needs to have tapes through the 3 groups of stiching. I think if I worked long tapes through I could just tie 3 bows at the fore edge. If that is too busy I could just tie one bow. Even thinking about bows at all seems too busy. 3 small buckles would work much better. Stay tuned!

Here are some examples of book blocks on tape so you know what the heck I'm talking about!