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Making a Commonplace Book using an old book cover and a fabric spine
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- Опубликовано: 18 апр 2024
- How to make a simple book using an old book cover, a scrap of cloth and recycled paper. I am using mine as a commonplace book which is a place to record quotes, ideas, words, poems and other interesting things I learn from you lovely people. ❤️
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What a delightful little book you have made. It's a treasure in its own right.
Thank you 😊
I have a stack of envelopes with notes and other tings I want to remember. My husband will find an old book for me at our library book sale. I love this so much! Love that you are a librarian. My favorite place growing up.
Thank you! I really miss libraries living where I do, it's an hour's drive to the nearest one and then of course mostly books in French and I prefer to read in English. When I lived in England, I went to the library every week. ❤️
One saves an old book destined for destruction and gifts the world with a new unique book. Love that you call it your external brain. I love making journals and watching you make this was a joy. Thank you for sharing. 🌷🌷🌷)
My pleasure Meridel and thank you ❤️
I keep a book like this and in fact have just recently made a video sharing it. I call mine my ‘mindfulness journal’ and a couple of people commented saying it was a commonplace book. However, in the spirit of ‘you do you’...I rather like ‘mindfulness journal’ so will continue to call it that😊. Your book is lovely.
Hello Chrissie, I will check yours out. I agree, journals are such personal things we should call them what we like 😁❤️
How funny! I am also a junk journaler and currently I am making a kind of commoplace book made from a huge gift bag. The cover, however, has a slow stitched piece very much inspired by you. The largest cloth piece is onion dyed. When I have a dye bath left over, I put it in a small container in my fridge. For later use. So when you said: in case you have dye bath sittning around I had to laugh out loud. Of course I do, doesn’t everybody? Well, I guess not 🤣 OMG what’s wrong with me 🤪🤣🤣
And I have a contribution to your book: potato in Czech is BRAMBORY 😘 In Swedish: POTATIS
I have lived in Sweden my whole adult life but I have my origins in Prague, Bohemia 🥰 So I can proudly state that I indeed am a bohemian 😉❤️🙏🏼
If there's something wrong with you, I have it too 😂 thank you for the Czech, I didn't have that one yet, I already have the Swedish written in my book. 😉 I don't think I ever met an actual Bohemian before so how lovely that the first one I meet has dye baths hanging around the place. 😉❤️
Oh my goodness … there are just not enough hours in a day to devote to all this gorgeousness. Thank you, as ever, for sharing ❤🙏
My pleasure Sandra 😊
This is perfect for placing the little note my Mother wrote to me and my family in her shaky handwriting towards the end of her Life thanking us for all we’ve done for her in her last year. Your timing on projects is impeccable. Thank you. ❤
Hugs to you ♥️
I never heard of a commonplace book, but it really appeals! And your version is marvelous. I haven't made a book yet but probably will at some point because...well...papers. words. textures and sounds. Thanks again!
Thank you, I hope you enjoy making one ❤️
Oh my goodness, such a great video. I love to make books too. You might need another category, pronunciation of words! I’ve never heard miscellaneous pronounced the way you do k3n! Thank you for all the videos you make! ❤
Thank you Donna, 'miscellany' is the noun related to 'miscellaneous ' 😁 my pleasure I am so happy you like my videos ❤️
A lovely idea and beautiful creation. It will be a joy to jot in. Cheers, Christine
Thank you Christine, love 'joy to jot in' 😁❤️
I see a lovely and glorious "new" old book. I love journals. And your papers look marvelous, all dyed and such. I always use many various sizes too (cattywampus and all-HEHE). Thanks for sharing. Cattywampus Michelle.
Thank you so much Cattywampus Michelle 😁❤️
I would happily drop all my books in a muddy puddle if they would come out looking like that, lovely Kathryn!!! 💖🍀
😂 thank you Machteld ❤️
Have been kind of binge watching.❤ Great ideas. Thank you so much. Enjoy your stories as well. 🙏👍
Glad you like them! 😊
I need an external brain, as well. Fabulous idea and the way you put fabric on the edges of the book were kind of genius! ❤
Thank you ☺️
Love, love, love this! I'm gathering supplies. 😊
Just love your book and assortment of papers. I will be making one as I would love to have such a unique book to write in. Thank you.
Love the beautiful cover. I have keep a common book for many years
I truly don't know how I ever managed without one ❤️
Isn’t it great what you can create without buying anything and another great idea for repurposing an old book, love it
What a beautifully easy creative book, this is what I am going to make for my stitched work with writing. I will use water colour paper for the stitched work and tea dyed paper for writing...thank you so much for sharing this video.
My pleasure 😊
Saving such lovely covers
J'adore your journal!! it's beautiful and will be so rich as it gets filled with all your words and ideas inside. I love those old tattered marble paper covers, so perfect for this book.
Thank you, I have already written loads in it, it's so lovely to use as it lays nice and flat. ❤️
I have my mothers recipe box with her beautiful handwriting, I want to make this journal and paste her recipe cards and tons of scrap paper She has written recipes on to make it beautifulcook book book!
That's a wonderful idea ❤️
Loved watching this! Thank you so much for your inspiration 🤍
@@sarahporreca2524 my pleasure 😊
A librarian. Of course, so much is explained by that revelation. I too loathed taking apart an old book, but love the finished journals Beautiful
😁 thank you Alison ❤️
Love your commonplace book. I need a new one and this is just the ticket. I like to make lists, so will include a tab of lists. After my mom passed, I found a notebook of lists she had made. One list was titled “things I bought that I ended up not liking”. It made me laugh!
That's a great list of your Mum's ❤️
I have been keeping a commonplace journal for 2 years now - this is second year and I thought I would do a contents page.... Naturally I haven't done that yet 🤦 but the way you do it with the tabs appeals to me much more! It was a lovely surprise to see this pop up while I am waiting for a delivery. 😊 I am still catching up with the content since I am late to the party that is k3n clothtales! Love from Scotland ☺️
Thank you Margaret, hope your delivery is on time, much love back ❤️
Another wonderful and inspiring project. I am sure I have all that I need to create my own book. I need a place to gather the words and phrases!
Beautiful journal book. Since I’ve been watching your channel, I thought of making a photo scrapbook with your design, printing the photo on fabric.
I need one of these to supplement my memory! Don't forget to put "scurryfunge" in the word section. That is one of my favourite words that I learned in the fb group.😊
Yes! Thank you, I had forgotten, also 'hurkle durkle ' 😁♥️
This was a nice surprise video, I lovemaking books and journals. I nearly died of stress the first time I deconstructed a book ! But I was so pleased with the results especially the natural dyed papers and their crinkly feel, that I can now justify it ! 😂😂thank you as always for your inspiration. ☺️🥰❤
I know, I actually cried real tears the first time I did it. Isn't it interesting how we have such an emotional reaction to a book which is essentially only paper and cardboard? 😊♥️
Fabulous ❤ thanks
Great little book and I love the construction ❤ ty!
Thank you 😊
I love the idea of a common place book / journal. I'm forever writing notes, reminders, new words, etc, on scrappy bits of paper, receipts, and used envelopes 😂
FYI the word for potato in Croatian is krumpir 🥔
Oh thank you, that's a new one, writing it in my book right now 😁♥️
absolutely loved this video!
Thank you 😊
In my first lessons making books, the instructor gave every student a small cardboard box. We draped our signatures over an edge of the box and punched the sewing holes “convexly.” It was well supported and not as shifty as when you hold the signature in one hand and punch with the other. Not as lovely as a book cradle, but a good quick and dirty hack.
That's a good idea, dare I say 'thinking outside the box ' 😁❤️
A beautiful little book. Thank you for the video.
My pleasure 😊
You're a really good teacher! 😍
Thank you 😊
Thank you for sharing the making of a common place book. I definitely need to make one as I write things on odd pieces of paper and then manage to put them in the rubbish. I love to hear your dogs and cat playing as you craft. My two dogs hang around me when I'm stitching, etc, and often bring me a toy to throw for them or manage to leap onto my lap.
They love to be involved don't they!😁♥️
Brenda: Your book looks amazing!
Thank you Brenda 😊
Love it!
Love your external brain, need one myself, getting older and so 😅. Tineke
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Very beautiful and love the idea. I’m getting to the place where I need a place to keep my thoughts as well.
Thank you Dawn, and for the follow on Kofi 😊❤️
A notebook for 'ideas', that's all I need. I already filled several of those, but the one I have now is almost full. 😊
GORGEOUS!! I love making junk journals and many times make them very much like your method. Thank you for sharing your ideas and methods. 💜💜💜
Thank you Corky, I have just subscribed to your channel and I am looking forward to watching some of your videos soon ❤️
I love to make journals and keep commonplace books. Love your headings. I’ve been on vacation and still am. Lots to catching up to do when I get back. ❤
I hope you are having a good time 😊
So, that is my problem - my external brain is scattered about in various commercial notebooks. Having something beautiful to touch appeals to my sensibility and I will be following your lovely tutorial. Thank you, again.
My pleasure Ann and thank you ☺️
This is such a wonderful idea - I usually do Coptic binding but I love this method. I’ll have to try it! Very clear and easy to understand 😊😊
Thank you Rita. I use Coptic binding for my journals to paint or sketch in because they lay lovely and flat don't they 😊❤️
@@k3n.clothtales - I could never quite work out the binding style you used here but your clear demonstration meant I finally got it 💕😊
Yeay thank you ❤️
🇨🇿 brambora /Plural: brambory 🇸🇰 zemiak/ Pl.: zemiaky
For Your potatoes page ❤ love your playing with languages, and the wonderful new oldish notice book😊
Thank you 😊
Thank you so much for this tutorial Kathryn. I have the old exercise books of my two sons (only one is still here) and have tonight found something meaningful to do with the remaining pages of their schoolbooks, that can still (literally) bind them together into the future. Thank you so much x
P.S. I have met many Malawian people who refer to potatoes as Irishpotatoes :)
Hello Becky that sounds like a wonderful project and thanks for the potato information 😊❤️
Love me a journal❤...have fun filling it...for the ideas here's your first one...1. Slow stitch a packing container to hold all boxes...😂😂😂😂😂😂
You are funny 🤣
Love this idea… I have to try and make one… I keep a commonplace book but never knew that’s what it’s called… ❤😊
Hi Kathryn, I love your cloth spine book with all those yummy pages. I hope you get your new glasses soon, where would we be without our glasses! ❤❤
Thank you Bella, we'd be totally and literally lost, wouldn't we 😎🥸😎😁♥️
Love the idea of this as an external brain ❤I never section mine because they don't get filled at equal rates and I don't want to have to carry around more than one, but of course that makes it much easier to find what you want later -- which is kind of the point 😂 lovely book!
I did think of that, but then I thought I could tear the tabs off and move them... When it's grungy like this,mif it rips it doesn't matter 😁❤️
Yes, you are the boss of this book!!
I love this. My son is a book lover and collector of information. I am going to make one for his birthday. I was making a journal for him filled with excerpts from works written in the author’s handwriting. I think the combined contents will make a unique gift for him.
Thank you, that sounds wonderful 😊
You've sent me into research mode as I'd never heard of a commonplace book. Very interesting indeed. I use notebooks all the time but haven't ever made one myself..
I've a word for you though..
Deng jai.... Which is Cantonese for those little stools of the type you hop onto to reach the top shelves etc..
It's pronounced just about the way I've written it ☺️
Thank you, that's a great word 😊 it's lovely to have a special book with all those little bits and bobs in one place. I wish I had made it a little bit smaller though so I could carry it around with me more easily. Perhaps I need to make a pocket version. ❤️
Lovely!
Wonderful!! 😊 I think I'll go and make one also.
Thank you have fun 😊
Love this Kathryn, I have a commonplace book but would love to make a new one inspired by your ideas. 😊💕
Thank you Julie ❤️
Arriving late at the party, but just what I needed as a substitute for Coptic binding. For your potato word collection, potato is peruna in Finnish, potatis in Swedish.
Thank you for the potato words and you are very welcome to the party 😁❤️
I need one of these! I am always writing things down on bits of paper then can’t find the paper I wrote it on because I put it in a safe place lol. I could do a section for my safe places 😂. Beautiful notebook Kathryn ❤
Thank you Carol 😊 I now think I need a pocket size one as well to take out and about with me 😂♥️
@@k3n.clothtales oh yes you definitely need one of those ❤️
I too always add more pages than I intend! And sometimes I have a book and think: “oh, it’s too chunky, I’m going to take out a few pages”. I start all the process and end up with exactly the same amount of pages 😂 or even more 🤦♀️🤷♀️😂
I love your book and I also love to have one of those around, although only recently did I learn their name in English 💙🧡💚🩷🤎🩵💜🤍💛❤️
Yes! I had only made five signatures which was already chunky, then when I was binding, I had two holes left over so had to make two more 😂 but I left it overnight under a heavy book and now it closes flat. Nearly 😉😁❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
@@k3n.clothtales 😊🩷
Thank you : )
You are such an inspiration, a fabulous teacher, and wow, what a sweet and unique creative adventure you took the listener on in creating this beautiful book. I'm gathering my supplies to have a go at making one - Thank you, wonderful. 💖
My pleasure and thank you so much. Have fun making your own book ❤️
Très beau livre, j'ai hâte de m'en faire un aussi. J'ai déjà plein d'idée pour le remolir notamment la section poème. Tu dis que tu aimes les livres français, oh la France!! chaque fois que tu parles en français cela me fait plaisir! Dans mon livre je mettrai des mots anglais!! Merci pour ce beau projet ❤❤❤
Bonsoir, merci et c'est mon plaisir ❤️
Lovely!!!❤
I have a planner that I try to put all this stuff in. My daughter named it the brain, so now when someone mentions something I will say, " oh wait, let me put that in my brain". On a side note Americans also call potatoes "spuds" at times, and I can not figure out how to respond back to comments, but you said " hi cous" which I would respond back with " what's buzzin cousin".❤
Oh I love that, 'I'll put it in my brain ' 😁 and now I am trying to think of another cousin related greeting, 😂❤️
I love "my external brain"😊 Please let us know when you have filled it and need to make another! It looks big now, but too soon they are full. I have inherited several books that do not interest me and are "frail", but so far I can not remake them to reuse them. It seems to be a "when you are ready" kind of thing doesn't it. I feel like one day this internet thing is going to break down and all the online stuff will be history, but I will still have my reference books. Strange, I know. Just can not hold my cell phone or tablet or laptop and get the same warm feeling I do from holding and reading a book, especially a book the precious loving hands held before me.
I agree with you completely about books. I have already written lots in this one and it feels more substantial already. Yes, when you are ready, your books will be waiting to be remade ❤️
Lovely make- I only found out years after I started mine- that they had a name- common place books. I LOVE them & referring back to them
Thank you 😊
Your book is wonderful. I also love making 'journal type' books, never did a cloth binding, will give it a go, have plenty of upholstery fabric that I love and have not used it yet. 💚
Thank you, hope you enjoy ❤️
Wonderful journal….i love the papers you have dyed and chosen. 💖 What I call my daily gratitude journal is actually a commonplace book. I’m going to borrow your tab idea. 😊💖💖
Thank you Deb, and you are welcome 🤗
If the first signatur is done, you can place your template from the outside and mark the points. That will make it easier.😉
Genius idea, thank you so much 😊♥️
Lovely old book. I would have glue the cloth onto the spine unless you needed a lager spin. 🌻
Thank you, yes I have done that too but I wanted a wider spine. ❤️
What a great idea!! Hugs ❤
Thank you,hugs back atcha 😊❤️
Thank you
My mother would say " Cat fur to make kitten britches." This was said anytime someone slurred the word "for" and gave it an "ur" sound.
That's a good one 😁❤️
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Nice. Potato = in Danish Kartofffel
Thank you Lisbeth 😊
I just finished watching this video showing how to turn an old book into a Commonplace Book. I was wondering if you have written anything in it by now (6/12)? I have a box full of unused journals. I love making them but I don't use them.
Hello Virginia yes I have written in it a lot, though I do have journals that I haven't used or only put a few things in. I don't think personally that there is anything wrong with viewing journals as finished objects in their own right. It's an expression of your creativity, a piece of art that doesn't have to be used or useful. 😊♥️
I love this! What kind of glue did you use?
Thank you, just regular PVA ♥️
I use paper from old thrift store Photo
That's a great idea 🙂
IT gives a old look
Lovely video, lovely book. Have you watched Rachel on Roxycreations? She uses old books and saves, repairs, replaces old spines to make journals. I have used her methods and found them very successful. I thought you might find her methods interesting. ❤❤❤
Yes, I love watching Rachel, I so admire her way of creating, and thank you. Regarding the word 'quote' you had me wondering so I looked it up. The OED says it is a noun and has been in use as such since the 16th century. Indeed as an abbreviated version of 'quotation'. 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales interesting. I was brought up to say quotation. Thank you for the clarification. My former headmaster always carried a common book in his jacket. Yours is beautiful.
Hi Kathryn, this one is for me! What type of glue did you use to glue the fabric on with? Ta :) Noni
Hello, just regular PVA 😁❤️
@@k3n.clothtales
Thank you 🙂👍🏼
USE Spine for BOokmark x
Yes! I will do that 😁
Surely the noun is quotations not quotes ❤❤❤❤❤