DIY JOURNAL BINDING / Handmade sketchbook Tutorial
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- Опубліковано 20 кві 2018
- ❖ You are wondering how to make your own Sketchbook?! How to bind a Journal?! Here is a DIY Tutorial to bind the journal step by step, a really easy way (beginner friendly).
That way, you can make a handmade watercolor journal or Urban Sketching sketchbook, create your own bullet journal, art journal or simply whatever notebook you like!
❖ This video is the following of my DIY Journal or Watercolor Sketchbook Series 📖
► DIY Journal or Watercolor Sketchbook Series : • DIY Journal / Watercol...
► Previous video with the beginning of the binding. BINDING your Journal or Sketchbook. DIY Journal #2 : • BINDING your Journal o...
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Be sure to watch the previous binding video ua-cam.com/video/2QbRe2MkpaM/v-deo.html before this one 😊
or even the whole DIY JOURNAL OR WATERCOLOR SKETCHBOOK SERIES : ua-cam.com/play/PL-7mr-4NljWTyv5CRkk1n1jPO8-GUgJU-.html 😉
Happy watching, binding and creating!! 🎉 😃 😘
You're doing it so tightly and precisely that it is relaxing to watch ☺️
This was very helpful! I love how you were able to simplify the steps on binding and you have such a bright and positive personality that I couldn't not subscribe!
I used this tutorial to make a sketchbook today and it turned out fantastic. It was also pretty easy once I got the hang of it. Thanks so much for this tutorial!!
You have such a fun and encouraging personality.
Merci Anne-Laure, grâce à ton tuto, je vais me lancer et créer mes carnets moi-même ! Continue à nous inspirer, encore merci ! :-)
Thank you, Anne-Laure. I just made my first sketchbook using your method. Your step-by-step teaching was very helpful and made certain that I could be successful. I’m very thankful to you.
Awsome. Just bought more paper so will have to try this, looks so good. Thank you. 😍🏴
Revisited this series recently and made my first diy sketchbook! It's SO rewarding. I went with Arches Hotpress, 9x6 with a softcover - had paper laying around for AGES. Thank you for thorough explanation, some sections turned out to be wonky and the thread ripped a few times but looking at it now, I'm really proud I didn't give up 👀♥️ I know what I'll change next time and I'll get much better on the second go
Thanks so much, you certainly have inspired me to try binding a sketchbook again. My first attempt years ago was a loosey goosey mess, but I filled it anyway. The tip about tightening as you go... was GOLDEN!
I am so happy I inspired you to try again, Elaine!! Did you already or are you going to do it?! 😊
Yes, I am sure tightening as you go can really help. 😉
this seems easier and tighter than the coptic stitch method, i'm gonna try it soon on my next diy watercolor sketchbook :)
Thanks for this Anne-Laure I seem to have to come back here every time I start a new sketch book. So glad you are always here.
thank you for this wonderful series on binding, it is very inspirational and so useful!
Merci beaucoup Anne-Laure ! Grâce à vous, j’ai réalisé mon premier sketchbook en suivant vos recommandations et il me plaît, ce qui n’est pas peu dire pour une ex-perfectionniste. Haha ! En fait, je viens d’en préparer un second et c’est presque aussi agréable que de le remplir. 😉😊
Thank you for sharing your how-to. I've watched the previous ones and look forward to the cover part!
Thanks a lot Iris! I am going to do the cover tutorial as soon as I can. 😊
I know this post is 4 years old but I just followed this tutorial it was sooo helpful
I love the up and close detailed views of exactly what you are doing in each step. I’m still refining my book binding methods and will try this next.
Thanks a lot for noticing my efforts at trying to get nice close shots! 😘 It's was not so easy to do the binding from the other side of the sketchbook! 😅 I am glad you liked the video, Dionne. Please tell me how it goes when you try the technique and feel free to share your own tips as well from the methods you are already using! 😊
Thank you, Anne-Laure. This is so good-I think I'll be able to finally make a sketchbook with my favorite paper because of your excellent tutorial!
Hi Cathy! What's up?!! 😊 I hope you will be happy and will enjoy very much you sketchbook with the paper you like! You'll tell me how it goes?!! 😃
Thank you so much for this series, I can't wait to make my own sketchbook!!
Thanks Carolina! 😘 I hope you will like to make your own! 😊
I just bound my first five signature sketchbook! It worked great! The only problem was the watercolor paper I used wasn't strong enough and I ripped a whole, but I'm super happy with it! I was using some old watercolor paper I had lying around so it was great practice for the future! Thanks for the help!
I LOVE bookbinding, and it’s one of my favorite pastimes. I think I’m going to make a book press this week if I get a chance and do some case bindings or something because all these bookbinding videos popping up on UA-cam this week are making me nostalgic! I’ve always planned to do bookbinding on my channel eventually but now I basically want to drop all my other projects and build books!!! =>.
Wow, you are an expert, then!! 👍 I didn't realize they were so many bookbinding videos on UA-cam these days. Maybe that's the algorithm making see you the other older binding video as well?!
What did you think of my technique, regarding to the other you know?! I hope to be able to watch a binding video by you quite soon!! 😛 😉
See you!! 👋
Following the White Rabbit oh gosh, im definitely no expert, just a foolish enthusiast who can’t be stopped. =>..
I have just finished watching your tutorials on making my own journals...awesome!! I can't wait to get started!! Your direction make it look so easy, however I know I'll be watching them again ...perhaps several times...while making my journal. Thank you so very much for sharing these demos. Nell
Oh, thank you!! This is so much easier than the traditional way I've been doing it! Thank you, again, for another excellent tutorial! Can't wait to see your way of doing the cover!! Yay!!
Oh, I am so happy, Aneta, that this seemed easier than what you did previously! 😊 I hope it will help for your next sketchbooks, then. 😌 I try to do the cover one soon!
Thanks for your kind comment. 😘
Following the White Rabbit
I made a sketchbook using your method this last weekend. It came out great. I especially like the way you bind the first two signatures. It's a lot better than my old way. They hold together tighter. Thank you again!
Wonderful, thanks for your feedback! 👍😊
Thank you for sharing this technique! I just finished making a small watercolor sketchbook with three signatures! I purposely made it about 4 x 6 and didn’t use fancy paper because I was afraid it wouldn’t work, but it worked great!
Just finished watching all 3 videos - thank you very much. Making your own sketch book its self is such a creative process, I never realised I until I saw your video. I’m new to sketching and have been buying sketch books and experimenting with different types of paper. I will be trying this technique to make my own unique sketch book :-) Looking forward to the next one about making the cover!
Hi Sasala! Thanks for watching the whole series and for your nice comment! 😊 Yes, that's quite a creative process and the cover is going to be the highlight of the creative journey!! 😛 😃 I try to make it as soon as i can. ☺️
Feel free to share when you will try the technique!
See you!! 👋
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻thank you
Great video! Thankyou so much! I am looking forward to the cover tutorial. :)
Just made my first sketchbook, merci White Rabbit!
Thank you! Nice tutorial and tips..:)
Merci! C'est tres bien!
Thank you for sharing this! Now I am very anxious to learn how to do the cover!
Hi, thanks for your comment! But, noooo, don't be anxious after watching my videos!! I don't want you to!
I am going to do the cover tutorial as soon as I can. 😊
You are amazing. It really helped, thank you. I love your accent :)
Thank you ! great tutorial looking forward to learn with you, how to do the cover.
Thanks o8rufus! ☺️ I try to do the cover one soon! 😉
Merci Anne-Laure, c'est très clair ! 👍👍👍
Toujours aussi bien 😍
Youppppie alors!! Merci pour ton enthousiasme Prune! 💜
What a great, easy to follow tutorial! You are so delightful to watch. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks a lot Kathryn! I am so happy you enjoyed watching it. 😃
See you!!! 😘 👋
I made a cover using a cereal box from the bulk store Costco (USA) that had two bags of cereal in the box so it’s slightly sturdier than a typical cereal box. I only have two signatures in it and I glued it on, only one side at a time letting it dry with weight on it overnight, then the other side. I didn’t cut it down until it was totally dry and I left a slight margin around the edge. I did sew a cover on a small one as I did the binding of the pages and it was tricky, hence why I glued the bigger one. I’m anxious to see how you do it with several signatures. Thank you for all you do!!!
Thanks for sharing your method Jeanne! Mine has some things similar and some different... 😊
I am going to do the cover tutorial as soon as I can. 😊
Merci beaucoup! Vraiment utile! Pouvez vous faire plus de videos!
J'ai vraiment hâte de voir le vidéo de la couverture! Merci énormément pour tous ces tutos qui m'inspirent tellement. Avec tout ce que tu fais dans une journée, prends-tu le temps de dormir ?? ah! ah!
Bonjour Marie-Sophie ! Merci pour ton gentil commentaire ! Ouiii, je sais que le tuto couv' est très attendu. 😉
Mais celui-ci aussi était nécessaire, et utile avant de finaliser notre oeuvre !!!! 🤪 😝 Cela me fait vraiment plaisir que ces tutos et vidéos t'inspirent. 😊
Le sommeil est à peu près la seule chose sur laquelle j'essaie de ne pas faire de compromis !!! 😌
Bises !!!! 😘
I notice that in most of your other sketchbooks you use a neutral color thread or twine. Do you use linen thread, and if so, waxed or unwaxed? I love your You Tube channel and your happy, inspiring videos.
I tried the multiple page sketchbook...it’s come out good and just what I expected. Thanku so much for sharing 😄 hope to bump into u in Amsterdam for USK symposium... I will show u my sketchbook. M preparing this book for the trip
Thanks again. Very well explained, as usual. Still following.... :)
Thanks Fiona! 🙏😊
The fist Knot is sucj a clever way to tie everything hold tight O.O I'll try this next time !
Thanks Isabelle!! I hope this will help for your next binding sessions, indeed!
You'll tell me?! 😊
See you!! 😘
Thanks again make this creative video
You're welcome, thanks a lot for your nice comment! 🙏
merci .formidable.
You're welcome, Thank you!! 🙏 😊
Have you made a combined watercolor paper and other paper (for writing and collage journal)? If so, have you found a good ratio of how to combine the pages in advance? I like to do both writing/collage, and sketching/watercolor in my travel journals. It seems a waste to use the good watercolor paper for the writing and collage so I'd like to do a combined journal. I thought about every other page different paper, but that means you can't do a watercolor spread across two pages, if so inclined. Maybe I want too much:)?
Thanks so much for this latest installment. I look forward to making larger sketchbooks. So thankful for you. #fangirling :-) You wanna come to Virginia and teach me how you watercolor now?? lol
Hi Cindy!! 😃 Thank you so much for your adorable comment and enthusiasm!! 😘 I hope you will like to make large sketchbooks with the paper you like. 😌
Yeah, why not planning some workshops in the US one day?!! 😝
See you!!! 💜
Hi Anne-Laure, with that watercolour paper, do you find it better using only a single folded - 4 sided signature rather than 2 or more interleaved pairs per signature?
I just found this tutorial. It was fabulous, especially showing how to tighten the threads. However, how do you continue when the thread runs out? My books now look awesome, thanks to your tutorial, but the mess is when thread runs out. I can't seem to join new thread neatly. What is your tip? 😊❤
Thankyou Anne Laure......I have been too impatient and sewn my signatures together....wish I had waited as I didn’t do the vital step.....putting the needle through the loop of the one below. I will wait now, for your take on making a cover.....mine isn’t working as I hoped
Hi Anne! But maybe your method worked, even without using the loop below?! There are always so many ways to do things. 😊 Did you search for other tutorials to help you, while waiting for mine?! That's a good thing to do to get some guidance. 😌 😉 I try to do the cover tutorial as soon as I can. 😊
When you attach two signatures together to use as a plein aire sketchbook how do you attach it to another one that is the same? You showed us how to attach two together to make a small sketchbook for the corrugated plastic cover. But how do you attach two of those together to build a larger sketchbook??
Oh dear! You need to tell us how we would tie off the 3rd signature if we don't want to add a 4th. I was following along, and now I've got the thread ending at the other side of the sketchbook. Oh well! Ha ha.
Hi Anne Laure! What paper do you use foe a multi-purpose journal like this?
thanks Annalaure....it looked like you pretended to not have cut the thread in this video, and just continued with a long piece of thread...what if you had cut the knot, with just the two signatures? Would you leave a tail on the inside of the signature you are adding, and not inside that...hard to explain in words...thank you for doing this...do you like Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane? from the 1967 era?
Hi! Yes, thank you for your question. In fact, I planned to make a longer video sharing several options like for example the one you are talking about, with having cut your thread previously and I shot everything but then I figured out this would be a bit messy and too long so I simplified. 😊 😉
So, when you start with your 2 signatures already bound, you are going to start by making a knot, not leaving a tail. You have 2 options for the knot to attach your thread to the previous binding.
One can be making a knot at the end of your thread and inserting the needle in the hole you see me having the needle in when the real tutorial begins (that's a hole at the end of your second signature, in your previously bound piece of sketchbook). When you pull the thread out, you have your thread ready as mine at 3:00. ua-cam.com/video/xpUIY7sVuKI/v-deo.htmlm The other way would be, without any knot at first, insert your needle and thread below the previous stitching to the left of the sketchbook like in my video then make a knot between the tail and the thread to tie it to the binding before staring once again at 3:00.
Hope this helps! As you said, hard to explain with words. 😉
thanks...just saw this....
Anne-Laure....my question is this: in the first video of this series, you said that you only use 3 sheets of paper per signature....then you bind those together with another signature of 3 sheets......now, here is where I need instruction.....when you have this 2 signature journal finished and want to add it to ANOTHER 2 signature, or 2 or 3 signature book, how is it that you bind all these different 2 signatures into one bundle, and then put the cover on it, like your India book???
This is an excellent question and I was wondering about this very same issue. Thank you in advance, Anne-Laure.
Yes, I was wondering the same thing.
Anne-Laure.....have you made the update for this book yet?
It will take me awhile to get the process down.
Nope! This didn’t answer my question. Please see my previous comment with questions on your part one sewing 2 signatures together.i know how to make journals that are blank but want to know how you do this with previously painted pages because the pages....well it’s on the other video. And I think I figured it out because if you sew 2 signatures and then take them out to paint then sew them all together later that makes sense so maybe I answered my own question!!!!
Sharon, I am sorry you got this impression the video didn't answer your question. Great if it helped you to figure out by yourself though! 😁 For me, it seems the same to sew the signature wether there is painting on it or not.... But maybe one day I will make the video with sewing the painted signatures if you feel that's different... 🤔 😊