I’ve been getting stuck into some bookbinding projects that use up some of the materials I’ve collected, in order to make space in the workroom.

What to make out of paper shopping bags?

A two single signature bound doodle book or journal:

Some excess signatures left over from a project? Bound with longstitch into a cover of marbled watercolour paper reinforced with cloth tape:

A Discovery Channel bag and security envelopes? A chain stitch book:

All those bits of card from packaging, interior design and yarn colour cards, and leftover scraps of wall paper from the concertina sketchbooks? More notebooks:

I have at least another four bookbinding projects like these, and two more complicated ones, to go. Then all the leftover materials have to fit onto the shelves somewhere.

And then there’s the weaving…