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Monday June 15, 22, 29 6:30-8:00PM EST (via Zoom)

A three-part series centered around doing the best with what you've got! Bookbinding from home focuses on creating beautiful books using creative approaches to come up with materials (rather than heading to the art supply store!). 

Come to all three classes as a series or as individual classes.

In this course, you’ll learn basic bookbinding techniques, keep your hands busy, and infuse creative problem solving into your life. 

June 15: WEEK 1 | A Container for Caring: Pamphlet Bound Journal

A journal can be a blank canvas, a space for emotions and potential, a garden plot for the seeds of your thoughts and dreams. In this class, empower your creative practice as you craft yourself a simple, pamphlet stitched book with blank pages. We'll end with a brief discussion of how a journal can be a place for the practices of noticing, awareness, and self caring. 

June 22: WEEK 2 | A Sturdy Space: French Link Stitch 

Creating a multiple signature notebook for all of your long stories and exciting dreams. String thoughts together as you build a book with decorative, supportive stitches to hold your pages together – more signatures means more space to roam in your writing. Create a soft cover French Link journal and talk briefly about building a journaling practice over time. 

June 29: WEEK 3 | Small But Mighty: Zines for Your Story 

Your words, images, and experiences are so important, and a book can be a space to hold these ways of expressing your story. In this class, empower your creative practices with a simple, quick, one page book structure for zine-making. 

Capture your important messages, your musings, your dreams, as you explore quickness and ease in the bookbinding process: accordion books, one page books, and staple-bound zines.