One of the first things I did after getting the Covid vaccine was take a bookbinding workshop.
It was so amazing to be able to spend time with other people. (We were all still masked at that point, so it even felt mostly safe!) And it was amazing to learn something new with no expectations for the result. When your expectations are so low, everything seems amazing.
(I had done some book binding, many years ago, but mostly single signature folded or sewn structures.)
I made many mistakes. This is an imperfectly bound book, to be sure, but I was grateful for the instruction and for the experience.
It was so wonderfully fun to learn something new with other people. I’m looking forward to having more experiences like this.
Since then, I’ve made a couple of other small books using papers from around the house.
I’d like to do more book binding. And no, I don’t know what I want to do with it.
Carmen Yount 