Tinkerbell Turns Bookbinder

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 29, 4 February 1939, Page 3 (Supplement)

Tinkerbell Turns Bookbinder

Last week, you will I gave you instructions for maKjpg n useful portfolio; this week 1 am going a step further and will show you something along the same lines. "It's good practice for T)imj?]e fingers, and everyone feels proud of something they have ?nacle by themselves,'' don't they? Very well then, let's gather our materials together for this week's hobby—making and decorating t a booklet.

You will need: Six or eight sheets of good paper, Sin x lOin, or larger; a rather large needle; strong linen thread.

Be sure that the pages are evenly cut so your booklet will look neat when it is finished. Fold all the papers exactly in the middle, keeping them all together. Thread your needle, then double your thread and make a good sized knot. Study the illustration, so you will see how the thread goes.

Now, open your pages, and sew the leaves together by putting your needle through the middle of tlie crease you have made in your paper. Sew down (from the inside to outside). up (from the outside to the inside) about two inches from the upper edge of the book. Se>v down (from inside to out? side) about two iiiclies from the lower edge of the book (see fig. A.), then up in the centre, to the place where you started.

Pull the knot back a little and tie the two ends carefully PVP I ' tlie long thread. (See fig. B.). Cut tlic ends of the thread, leaving about half an inch. This is the propel- way- tfl spw sinillj booklets.

If 3*oll should wish to make your fover of different paper, you may do so. Jfut it should not be stiff paper or it ill crack in the fpjds. T There arc njajjy >v&ys that designs pywy be usefl tg degQr&{s a cgyer. Till? tu>« we will use an all-over pattern. The word explains itself, does it not? Lot* -about in your home at wallpaper, carpets, liiioiuum.. dress goods andy curtains. It is a uesigt: that repeats itself in given spaces over *• large surface. Very often these spaces Sre squares or diamonds. That is, in fact, the way they ate made. See if you can di*>w this in the designs about yott.

Before you begin to make a design for this book cover decide what you will use the book for, then make a design thai "'*ll be appropriate. Why not make a collection of flowers and leaves ? You will know how to do this if you have followed the directions given in this column.

Choose your flower for the dcpisii, flnfl practise it until you fire quite familiar wjtli tjie Form,'tliei) 4'aw sonic squares and try pitting ypur flower into these. Try different ways—with the stem a side view, and affront view— showing the very d inside of the flower. "When yoii Jiave decided as to your flower fprm for the unit you are ready for tlie allrpver design.

Take a slipet or paper tlie size of your book cover. Opt a piece of cardlx.'ii'd one-liaif inch square. Put this oil tlie corner'of your paper, and, using it carefully for a measure, mark a dot, move it' on and mark another dot, and £0 on unitl you have placcd dpts in squares all over your slieet. JCow take your paints or crayons and place your ilmvers in every square. Then take another sheet, mark* it off. as yoii did before with dots, and place ypip- ilfjwer form on eyery dot, making the dot the centre of the form. Then take a third sheet and fill every otlipr space, skipping tlie opposite space in the second line. This will make, a diagonal pattern. ClTqpsc the design you like best and phiec it -oil the cover of your booklet. This ought to keep you bqsy until next week, when I will continue with more .of tlijs interesting work.