Saturday, 25 September 2021

Down South

I went to Committed to Cloth this week. I was going on my own but the weather forecast was good so Roger came with me.  He went walking whilst I went to the studio.

Today I'm going to tell you about the day we came home rather than what went on at C2C.  You'll have to wait unti next week for that!

On the way home from East Grinstead we drove towards Guildford in Surrey.  On the way we did a detour to Watts Gallery - Artists Village.

We walked through the grounds to where this beautiful Arts & Craft house had been built.  Sadly you couldn't visit inside.

Then we walked up to the Chapel which was rather too ornate inside for my taste.



This is a basketry installation.  We sat and had a drink just by it.

Then we moved on to Guildford.  We picked up an Historic Trail guide and wandered through the castle grounds with its amazing flower gardens.


This is the Guildhall clock.

The river Wey and the Wey & Arun Navigation run through Guildford.  I rather liked this sculpture.

A cast iron bridge

An old mill.  We could hear the mill race.


A canal lock.

We had lunch in a pub during our walk.

We drove home across country to the M40 rather than using the M4.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Tuesday, 21 September 2021

More Book Binding

Saturday was a great day.  Jude taught us several new books and helped us if we got stuck.  She very kindly finished my coptic binding book which I had not enjoyed maleing.

Here are all the different books I made over the three days.





Closed

Open




Very tiny book.  Pen to show size!

It was very enjoyable and very tiring.

Can you tell that zigzag books are my thing!

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice

Saturday, 18 September 2021

Creative Book Binding

For the past two days I have been on a Creative Book Binding course taught by Jude Kingshott.  Here are some of her lovely examples.


 

On Thursday we made the covers for our book and on Friday we sewed the signatures to the front cover.  Today we will be adding the back cover.

I made two zigzag books which I forgot to photograph!

I also made these books


Come back on Tuesday to find out what other books I have made.

Thanks for joining me today
Bernice