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Four ways to transform a cheap notebook
A bin of cheap plain notebooks, a little fabric, a few scraps, and an afternoon — and the answer to what they could become turns out to be quite a lot…
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Little belts for your journals
You know that little belt that keeps a journal from flopping open — the one that makes a handmade book look properly finished? It turns out they're not hard to make at all…
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A batch of little pocket journals
Not a full journal, not a big album — just tiny spine-bound booklets that actually finish. An afternoon's work that leaves you with a dozen lovely little things…
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Projects from an old calendar
There is always an old calendar somewhere in the house — tucked in a drawer, stacked by the recycling, handed over by someone who knew you'd find a use. Here are five reasons to be glad you kept it…
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Raiding the cereal box stash
A stack of cereal box panels, some baker's twine, and a binding method that needs no needle and no punched holes. This one is more satisfying than it has any right to be…
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Binding your sentimental cards
If you find it hard to throw away the cards people have written to you — but a loose stack in a drawer doesn't quite feel like keeping them either — this might be exactly the thing…
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A binding with a beautiful spine
Some bindings do their best work by disappearing. Coptic stitch is the opposite — those little braided stitches along the outside are the whole point…
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An easy no-sew binding
If the word 'binding' has ever put you off trying bookbinding, tab binding might be the way in — no sewing, no special tools, and every single page lies completely flat…
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Never buy printed papers again
Have you ever balked at the price of a pack of printed papers, then bought them anyway because making your own felt too uncertain? This letter is for that feeling…
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Five-minute project ideas
As makers, we don't always have a whole free afternoon — but we almost always have fifteen minutes and a pile of scraps that's been quietly judging us from the corner…
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Making your own fancy pens
Do you ever look at a plain ballpoint pen sitting next to a handmade journal and feel like it just doesn't belong there? These three approaches fix that, using almost nothing but what's already in your stash…
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Five easy ideas using newspaper
Newspaper is thin, textured, completely free, and has that warm, grungy quality that's genuinely hard to replicate with anything else. Once you see it as a material rather than recycling…
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Using up your fabric scraps
The same simple process — layered, sewn or glued, inked at the edges — looks completely different depending on which fabrics you reach for. That's what keeps you coming back to the table…
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Quick journals from 12x12 paper
A single 12×12 sheet, a few scored folds, and a pamphlet stitch — and you have a pocket journal worth gifting or selling. The construction takes minutes; the choosing is the good part…
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A junk journal from four envelopes
Who doesn't have a few envelopes tucked somewhere, waiting to become something? This little journal uses just four of them — and the results are much lovelier than the method deserves…
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The easiest journal you'll ever make
If you ever wanted to make a proper hardcover journal but the sewing part keeps stopping you — the measuring, the hole-piercing, the signatures flopping everywhere — there's a simpler way…
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