World Sweet World: Issue #07

MAKING TIME:

World Sweet World: Issue #07

MAKING TIME: MAKE A NOTE OF IT

For my mother, lie without lists would beunmanageable. In recent years, I’ve oundthat I share her need or written reminders.Whether you’ve got a hectic lie, or just asieve or a brain, having a handy book at theready or phone numbers, to-do lists, orwee poems and ideas, can be the dierencebetween productivity and chaos. Here aretwo simple notebooks that you can makeout o scrap paper – choose between pop-art inspired Tetra Pak and a traditionalChinese bookbinding method.

Notebook No. 1:Fabric-covered diary

By Jiang (Jan) Yinghua andSabine Schneider

This method o binding originated in China, but quickly spreadrom there to other Asian countries, such as Korea, Japan,Malaysia, Singapore. Outside o China, the notebooks werecovered in paper. For this one we're using abric, but eel ree toexperiment with paper i you like. The abric should bereasonably thin, an old shirt will do, or scraps rom a sewingproject. I you have to buy some, go to a abric shop and ask orthe remnant bin or at quarters or quilting. We’ve used an oldtea-tray liner or the one shown here, so eel ree to get creative.

Make anote of it

SCAVENGING YOURMATERIALS

Stack o used A4 paperNOTEBOOK NO. 1:Fabric or the covers (bigger than A6)Embroidery fossGlue (PVA, four paste or abric glue)NOTEBOOK NO. 2:Tetra PakPlastic binder comb

TOOLS YOU’RE GOINGTO NEED

ScissorsNOTEBOOK NO. 1:Brush or glueAwl (or similar hand tool or piercingholes)Paper knie or smallish kitchen knieSturdy needleNOTEBOOK NO. 2:Comb binding machineSteel rulerCrat knie

SPEEDSKILLCOST

$5ish

P H O T O B Y K A T E M A C P H E R S O N

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Sew corner: Leading thread around the spine o your notebook,push needle through corner hole rom ront to back. Then,leading thread around the top o your notebook and using thecorner hole again, push needle rom ront to back. Push needlethrough frst hole rom back to ront. The top corner is done.Using the next hole – the one where the beginning o your threadsticks out – push needle through rom ront to back

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Then, using the third hole rom top, push needle throughrom back to ront. Leading thread around the spine o yournotebook, push needle through the same hole rom back toront. Don’t worry about the gaps, they will be closed soon.

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Using the ourth hole, push needle through rom ront toback. Leading thread around the spine o notebook, pushneedle through the same hole rom ront to back again.

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Using fth hole rom top, push needle through rom back toront. Leading thread around the spine o notebook, pushneedle through the same hole rom back to ront.

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Sew bottom corner: Leading thread around the bottom o yournotebook, push needle through the same hole, rom back toront. Push needle through corner hole – ront to back.Leading thread around the spine o your notebook, pushneedle through corner hole rom ront to back. Then, leadingthread around the top o your notebook and using the cornerhole again, push needle rom ront to back. Push needlethrough fth hole rom back to ront. Push needle throughourth hole – rom ront to back.Choose embroidery oss in a contrasting colour, a matching hueor use a creamy o-white or a natural look. Embroidery osscan oten be ound in second-hand shops.

Fold six sheets o A4 paper in hal using the short sides.

Using a knie, cut paper along old

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Fold sheets in hal – again using the short sides. I you’re usingsecond-hand paper, make sure the blank side is acing outwards.

Place a olded sheet o paper on your abric and trim withscissors so abric is about 1cm larger than paper

FIG 2

. Cuto the corners.

Starting with short sides, apply glue and old abric over.Press and repeat until all our sides are olded

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. Theront cover is now done.

Repeat with back cover.

Place remaining olded sheets between covers – with oldspointing to the right o the notebook, open sides o paper tothe let.

Using a ruler, mark seven holes along the let side o thenotebook: Two o the holes should be 1cm in rom the letedge, as well as top and bottom. A urther three should beevenly spaced between the frst two and also about 1cm awayrom the let edge. A fnal two should be 5mm in rom letedge and top and bottom

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Make holes with the punch, holding the notebook frmly sopaper and covers don’t slide.

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Cut your embroidery oss – you should have six times thelength o your notebook. An easy way o measuring this is towind it lengthwise around the notebook.

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Starting at the second hole rom top and holding the end o your thread, push needle through rom ront to back

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Still holding the thread with your thumb, push needlethrough the same hole – again rom ront to back

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Push needle through frst hole rom top – rom back to ront

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. Leading thread the spine o your notebook, pushneedle through the same hole, again, rom back to ront.Then, leading thread around the top o your notebook andusing the same hole, push needle rom back to ront again.

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Push needle through corner hole – ront to back

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