My cookbooks have always sold better than my journals. Why this is, I'm not really sure. I've used books that were nominally 'journals' for recipe books in the past, and they worked just fine... Maybe it's just nice to have a special-purpose book; makes the activity feel more special. Anyway, we were are the G-dub a few months ago and stumbled across a bag full of fabric remnants for just a few bucks, and going through it I kept thinking, "this would make great bookcloth". So we bought it.
I did something a little bit different this time though; instead of using this blue gingham fabric as a spine, I thought why not use it as a cover? Gingham with a nice cherry blossom pattern on the inside would be very cookbook-y, has a great country feel to it, and is probably nice and durable too.
So that's what I did. I used a Coptic-stitch binding, which I haven't done in a while as I've been developing my other binding techniques, and journal paper (because I ran out of recipe paper). It turned out pretty nice!
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