Good news: Craft Arts Market is re-stocked and ready for all you book-lovers, journal writers and sketchbook fiends!
If this isn’t your local handmade/hand crafted items shop, it’s totally worth a day trip to St.Catherines to check them out. Make sure to leave enough time for a fresh, vegan doughnut from their next door neighbour (seriously, don’t forget this part).
To see a list of Sprouts Press current retailers, go here.
Have you been watching the flurry of bookbinding workshops I’ve been hosting, wishing you were participating and learning how to make your own books?
Good news! This sunday is the next one; Arrow Stitch Bookbinding Workshop (see picture) and it’s here in the city! We’ll be making the hardcover version, and then learning how to stitch it all together.
To learn more & register, go here. (Only a couple of spots left!)
The steps to binding a simple, hand made book:
Some more of the fun I’ve been having over on instagram as part of my local Etsy team’s February challenge! As the caption says, it’s a video of a very basic bookbinding technique, one I teach in all my workshops, to get everyone familiar with the process of making a book from scratch.
To see a list of upcoming workshops, go here.
I’m a makeologist! It’s with a happy heart that I’m celebrating Sprouts Press acceptance into the Makeology show!
There will be more details closer to the event (like swag bag info for early birds!!) but I’m so thrilled I just had to share it now!!
To visit the show website, go here.
H A P P Y V A L E N T I N E S D A Y !
Besides making my own journals and offering them for sale, I also teach my craft at various galleries and art centres across Southern Ontario! Below is a list of what’s coming up. *Please note that ‘Creative Coptic Bookbinding Workshop’ at CBBAG is now full, but I’m offering a variation of it at the Guelph School of Art, on March 6 of this year.
Creative Coptic Bookbinding Workshop
When: Sunday February 21, 2016. 10am – 5pm
Where: CBBAG (Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild), 80 Ward Street, Toronto
For more information and to register, go here.
Hard Cover Arrow Stitch Journal Workshop
When: Sunday February 28, 1pm – 4pm & Sunday April 17, 1pm – 4pm
Where: Graven Feather 906 Queen Street West, Toronto
For more information and to register, go here.
Hard Cover Coptic Bookbinding Workshop
When: Sunday March 6, 2016. 10am – 4pm
Where: Guelph School of Art, 125 Wyndham St. North. Guelph, Ontario.
For more information and to register, go here.
Longstitch/Linkstitch Bookbinding Workshop
When: Sunday March 13, 1pm – 4pm.
Where: Graven Feather 906 Queen Street West, Toronto
For more information and to register, go here.
The February Sprouts Press newsletter will go out later this week, this is your reminder to subscribe, if you haven’t already. If you’re already a subscriber, and know someone else who might appreciate my notes, why not pass the link along?
I send my newsletters out via email, once a month. While content varies month to month, there’s always a list of upcoming workshops, shows and other goings on. Sometimes there’s even special surprises just for subscribers!!
To subscribe, go here.
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