daemonluna

I have some gift copies of books I'm trying finish up right now, and have no excuses not to make cases tomorrow for at least three of them. Five books are sewn and glued into textblocks with endpapers, four are trimmed and have endbands sewn on, as well as cover boards matched up from my reuse stash and spine boards measured and cut, and now three of them have book cloth made for spines and covers.

I now have a growing stash of fancier commercial book cloth (group orders "save" money, ask me how), but I'm going for a black and white spine and cover with these ones to match the first book in the set that I did, and that means backing cloth with paper, using iron-on fusible interfacing.

Things I did NOT do this time:

Set the iron too low and end up with half the glue still on the paper instead of the cloth
Burn myself on the iron
Iron adhesive onto my ironing board
Cut the fusible interfacing smaller than the cloth edges (good) but also smaller than the cover of my book (bad)
Wrinkle the cloth and stick it to itself as I try to put the paper on
Accidentally trap loose threads between the adhesive and the paper
Back the paper with a misprint not realizing the text will show through on this cloth
Put the cloth down on the ironing board, not realizing that the small cat has been napping there again, and accidentally end up with book cloth that looks like it's got fancy textured fibres (but really it's cat hair between the glue and paper)

Don't worry! There are always new and exciting mistakes to be made when making cases, though!