Happy Halloween (in the rear view mirror)

November 1, 2021March 30, 2023 ~ Liz A ~ 15 Comments

We had fun getting ready to give out socially-distanced candy for Halloween this year …

Each piece of candy was wrapped with corny bat jokes. We get a kick out of the kids who stop to read them …

And of course, we loved getting pictures of the grand-kiddos in their costumes …

Then again, some of the kin have outgrown trick or treating and moved on to other past-times …

As usual, it was a busy scene in our neighborhood, where we ran out of our 150-piece stash by 7:45 …

Note to self: get 200 pieces of candy next year!

Double double, toil and trouble

October 31, 2021March 30, 2023 ~ Liz A ~ 18 Comments

I thought it was going well … until it wasn’t. As each new page of Moon Myth was attached, a problem emerged: the bottom edges were distinctly thicker than the top edges, which resulted in a troubling upward slope from top to bottom (impossible to photograph, so you’ll just have to take my word for it).

In fact, it was a problem I had somewhat anticipated when I designed the book to have a row of patches running along the bottom of each page, depicting the phases of the moon changing over the course of a month …

but I had thought that the appliqués and text blocks at the top of each page would compensate for that …

It turns out they didn’t compensate enough. So I unstitched the top edges of the five pairs of pages that were already assembled …

slipped a folded piece of cover stock into each, then restitched them one-by-one …

It was a much simpler matter adding cover stock padding to the as-yet-unassembled pages …

with the overall result that the top and bottom edges of the text block have become more balanced.

Although now the spine has me a little worried …

It’s always something, right?

It’s all about process

October 29, 2021March 30, 2023 ~ Liz A ~ 14 Comments

After being away from Moon Myth for three years, I figured I’d better look back at the blog to see how I had put some of the pages together. You guessed it … there wasn’t a word written about process. So I looked at what I had already done and tried to figure out how I’d done it. Then made sure to take plenty of pictures … for the next time.

Attaching the printed canvas was pretty straightforward, made easier when I decided to pre-punch the holes with a ceramic tool before stitching it down with perle cotton cross stitches …