This Saturday is the 38th Wayzgoose Book Arts Fair! Come out and join us for a great day celebrating all things bookbinding, printmaking, papermaking, letterpress, and paper arts!!
Where: Grimsby Public Art Gallery, 18 Carnegie Lane
When: Saturday April 30, 2016. 9am – 5pm
Just a couple of days ago I had the pleasure of teaching a workshop alongside these fine fellows at Mackenzie House Museum here in Toronto. It was a combination bookbinding & printmaking class, geared at learning traditional techniques and using analogue tools and equipment. It was great fun, everyone left with a unique journal they handbound and then printed themselves!
The entire month of April is Print Month over at Mackenzie House! There are more printmaking events happening at the museum, see their website for details.
To see a list of Sprouts Press’ upcoming bookbinding workshops go here.
Today is the first ever Makeology Spring Craft Fair! Sprouts Press will be there with our usual wares, plus a brand new item made just for this show!
Stop by the show if you can, and if you’re able, go early to be one of the first 50 people through the door, and get a swag bag filled with goodies from us makers!!!
For more information and directions, please visit the Makeology site here.
Today was a workshop day! I taught the Sampler Bookbinding Workshop over at Graven Feather. Students learned three different binding techniques and left with as many finished sample books!
If you missed this one, don’t fret! The next workshop is in a week, on Sunday April 17. For details and to register, go here.
**Also, don’t forget to enter my giveaway contest over on Instagram! Today’s the last day to enter!! Go here to learn the rules and enter!!
Can you believe that spring has started and it’s almost April?! You know what that means: newsletter sign-up time! 
This month is a big one, some really exciting news & announcements, *maybe* something special for subscribers (wink, wink) and a concise listing of upcoming events, workshops and general goings on of my little company.
As always, I only send one email per month. It’s a lot of work putting together a nice newsletter, I’d never waste all that energy and time on spam.
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Good news for folks learning the craft of hand bookbinding with me: I’ve got a brand new workshop being offered at Graven Feather!
It’s a Sampler Workshop! This means I’ll be teaching three different bindings, and we’ll be focusing on the technique rather than making a ‘pretty’ finished project. I’ve chosen fairly straightforward, easy to remember bindings that lend themselves well to projects you might want to make on your own, at home. These are good bindings to help build your bookbinding repertoire.
Here’s an exciting tidbit: Makeology Spring Craft Fair is less than one month away!! Mark your calendars, start your engines and prep for seriously awesome handmade goodness!!
I’ll be there as a vendor, selling my handbound books, journals, albums as well as my other book-related products (like bookbinding kits!). Also, I’ve got something special in the works, just for this show! It’s a series of journals that will be made only once, and available only at this show – stay tuned for details!
When: Saturday April 16 (one day only!) 11am – 6pm
Where: The Cotton Factory, 270 Sherman Ave. North, Hamilton
For more details and directions, please see the show’s webpage here.
Spend a sunday afternoon learning this gorgeous bookbinding stitch and make your own journal! 
I’ll be at Graven Feather this sunday teaching a bookbinding workshop; everyone will learn the tools of the trade, make their own cover and bind it all into a journal to take home. If this sounds like fun to you, click the link below for details and to register.
What: Longstitch/Linkstitch Bookbinding Workshop (see picture for examples)
When: Sunday March 13, 1pm – 4pm
Where: Graven Feather, 906 Queen St. West, Toronto
*Appropriate for beginners and those wanting to brush up on their bookbinding skills.
To learn more about this workshop and to register, please go here.
Can’t make it on Sunday? No prob, I’ve got more workshops coming up! Go to the Workshops section of my site for details.
On Sunday I was in a different studio, out of the city, teaching my craft to a lovely group of folks! This is the Guelph School of Art, and it is one fun place to teach! To the left is a wall (yes, a wall) of art supplies for every type of art imaginable! To the right you can just make out the drying rack for printmaking and other 2D art that might need to lay flat to dry. And those windows! Letting in all that natural light!!
This was a coptic binding workshop and everyone left with a finished project. Covers they designed and collaged, then bound into a nice little hardcover book using the coptic stitch. As I tell everyone who takes my classes: if you want to retain what you’ve learned, make another book within 1 week. Practice makes perfect!!
I have more workshops coming up, the next one is this sunday here in Toronto at Graven Feather. Take a look at the Workshops section of my site for details, more are in the works and will be announced shortly!
The Sprouts Press monthly eNewsletter goes out this Thursday! You have until wednesday evening to sign up!!
I write to subscribers about my latest projects, inspirations, ideas for using your handbound journals, upcoming events and other goings-on.
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