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I am more functional than I was this time yesterday, but only because I've had another day for my back to loosen up. Less stiff and sore trumps tired.
Work shifted from "zoo" to merely busy after lunch yesterday. One of Donna's former students brought her some boxes of outdated seeds, so someone will spend rain days this summer sorting them into our invetory. (Outdated seeds aren't bad, for most things...lots of stuff will still germinate 4-5 years after the date on the package, you just can't sell it.) Got a few big pots made up for the sale, which was fun. There were plenty of things we ought to have been doing, but that project was fun. Used breaks in the rain yesterday afternoon to run outside and dig things up for the sale....comfrey, some bananna-scented peppermint, a creeping ranunculus, catmint. Need to do more of that today. Also need to organize the tables a bit better.
Got involved in a project late in the evening last night, which turned into my being up until almost 1am to finish just one more little bit. I finished the book I was working on while I was on the phone, and after fiddling with another stack of folded pages while By & I were talking, I decided to quick stitch them together. Fine, no prob. The problem came when I went to slice the folds in the pages, and accidently hit the stitching at the top of the book. (I did have the sense to put it down and go to bed at that point.) So, now I've got to put binder clips on it, since the pages are all cut, and won't stay put without help, pull the rest of the old stitching out, and re-sew the darn thing. **sigh**
So, last night's total projecting--
1, 144-pg blank journal, white text block, 3 signatures, soft green leather envelope-style cover, braided stitching on the spine
1, 128-pg blank journal, white text block, 2 signatures, two-layer two-tone blue leather cover, top layer wraps around book, straight st on spine
1, 104-pg blank journal, grey text block, 1 signature, brown leather cover that wraps around book, chain st on the spine --needs to be re-sewn
These things go much faster when the pages are folded already, and all I've got to do is stack them together, decide how big a book I want and how I want to put it together, punch holes, and sew things into place. Ought to do a few more coptic ones, with the stitched and knotted work on the spine. Those take bigger stacks of pages, but it would use down some of the pile of paper.
By was up fairly late sewing some simple deerskin pouches for a guy who came into the shop a while back. He tried to sew them on the machine, but the leather was too soft and grippy. I'm wondering if there's a different needle we could use for that--he's got lots of little deerskin scraps, that'd make nice pouches, but it'll be hard to make them to sell when they're all hand-sewn.
He's got an estimate to be working on, I think for next week. Someone came in and asked what it would cost to make a 4' wooden pentacle, to hang on the side of his house. Interesting.
Work shifted from "zoo" to merely busy after lunch yesterday. One of Donna's former students brought her some boxes of outdated seeds, so someone will spend rain days this summer sorting them into our invetory. (Outdated seeds aren't bad, for most things...lots of stuff will still germinate 4-5 years after the date on the package, you just can't sell it.) Got a few big pots made up for the sale, which was fun. There were plenty of things we ought to have been doing, but that project was fun. Used breaks in the rain yesterday afternoon to run outside and dig things up for the sale....comfrey, some bananna-scented peppermint, a creeping ranunculus, catmint. Need to do more of that today. Also need to organize the tables a bit better.
Got involved in a project late in the evening last night, which turned into my being up until almost 1am to finish just one more little bit. I finished the book I was working on while I was on the phone, and after fiddling with another stack of folded pages while By & I were talking, I decided to quick stitch them together. Fine, no prob. The problem came when I went to slice the folds in the pages, and accidently hit the stitching at the top of the book. (I did have the sense to put it down and go to bed at that point.) So, now I've got to put binder clips on it, since the pages are all cut, and won't stay put without help, pull the rest of the old stitching out, and re-sew the darn thing. **sigh**
So, last night's total projecting--
1, 144-pg blank journal, white text block, 3 signatures, soft green leather envelope-style cover, braided stitching on the spine
1, 128-pg blank journal, white text block, 2 signatures, two-layer two-tone blue leather cover, top layer wraps around book, straight st on spine
1, 104-pg blank journal, grey text block, 1 signature, brown leather cover that wraps around book, chain st on the spine --needs to be re-sewn
These things go much faster when the pages are folded already, and all I've got to do is stack them together, decide how big a book I want and how I want to put it together, punch holes, and sew things into place. Ought to do a few more coptic ones, with the stitched and knotted work on the spine. Those take bigger stacks of pages, but it would use down some of the pile of paper.
By was up fairly late sewing some simple deerskin pouches for a guy who came into the shop a while back. He tried to sew them on the machine, but the leather was too soft and grippy. I'm wondering if there's a different needle we could use for that--he's got lots of little deerskin scraps, that'd make nice pouches, but it'll be hard to make them to sell when they're all hand-sewn.
He's got an estimate to be working on, I think for next week. Someone came in and asked what it would cost to make a 4' wooden pentacle, to hang on the side of his house. Interesting.
