Book du jour

This dos-a-dos with punctures and stitched lines, made a couple of weeks agohad two spin-offs - a concertina, joined with zigzag, with a sort of morse code effect in stitch -

and a codex with some lines extending across the spread, and some of the stitching going round the edge of the page -

This introduces, or harks back to, that intriguing aspect of embroidery - the back of the work. Who can resist turning over a piece of embroidery to see the back? In a book like this, you're invited to do so. Something worth exploring, perhaps.

I now have several groupings of "books du jour". Although the aim is to make one every day, obviously it doesn't work out that way. Sometimes enthusiasm runs high and one just leads to another; sometimes it all goes very quiet....

In order to be reflective (and get some perspective on the project) I've gathered together all these posts. (It's much easier to flip through bits of paper than to click back through the blog!) They come to 110 pages - how many books, though?

Next step is to gather the books themselves and figure out what the groupings/categories/series are, and to see which seem to be going somewhere...