Have you ever wanted to have a custom sketchbook with the exact paper you want? Then try making one yourself.
Basic Bookbinding skills are not hard to learn and you can easily bind selfmade journals that cost a fraction of storebought sketchbooks.

In your custom sketchbook, you can include toned paper, or really nice cotton watercolor paper, and you can vary the size and the type of cover each time. I've been making my own sketchbooks ever since I started using sketchbooks again 2 years ago, and I've been very happy with my selfmade sketchbooks. I typically use several different sketchbooks, one for testing colors, one for nature journaling, one for painting, and I love that I can make them in the way I want them exactly.

You will not need any special equipment, in fact I make most of my sketchbooks with supplies I already have lying around at home.

I'll show you:
- three techniques that you can adapt to your wishes
- how to make a book block: preparing the pages & sewing them together
- how to make nice covers (hardcover & softcover)
- how you can ensure your sketchbook won't fall apart
- an amazingly easy technique without any sewing that will get you a finished sketchbook in under 15 minutes

If you want to learn how to make a sketchbook, with 3 different but still very simple binding techniques that look really pretty, then join me for this class. I'm not an expert bookbinder, but I still get nice, highly customizable sketchbooks with these techniques.

Tamara Kearns

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