Father's day gift and new book finish with Heidelberg prints

Travel pouch for pills

This is a little Father's day gift for my Beloved.   Like my golf clubs I bought myself for Mother's Day, he bought an equally expensive thing he wanted for his Father's Day present.   I recently found this wonderful fox fabric (Beloved collects foxes, long story) and wanted to make something out of it.   The plan was to find a nice plastic box that would hold daily pill container and a couple of vitamin bottles for travel and make a nice padded cover for it, a'la Vera Bradly.  I couldn't find one the right size, but I did find a nice zippered travel pouch, so added a fabric panel to personalize it.

New Secret Belgian Binding Book

Inside cover with old charts

Heidelberg print!

 Here we have a new SBB book.  This one has some vintage prints that were printed on the Heidelberg press at St. Andrews.   I am apprenticing with Buddy and we made them!!  Yes, we did!  It was so totally awesome!  I was walking on air the rest of the week.  The best part is I get to do it again this week.  A dab of ink goes in, there is whirring and wooshing, paper magically disappears from one stack and appears on the other with pictures!

Easy cut block print

Here is another homemade print.  I have been wanting to carve blocks and print for a long time.  Bought the materials and tools and couldn't bring myself to start.   Saturday morning fresh and determined with half a pot of coffee in me, I sketched a couple of ideas, then carved an easy cut block and printed it with water soluble speedball ink.  All the prints had smudges or thin spots, but still not bad for seat of the pants original sketch and first print!  Most of the prints are going into a book with a more advanced binding.   Stay tuned!