May Bookbinding Club - Topic To Be Announced

Throughout 2025, Bookbinding Club will be on the 2nd Friday of the month, from 10am until 12noon, casual drop-in. All are welcome!

May's Bookbinding Club will be held on Friday 9 May 2025.

TOPIC: TBA

Cost TBA

Please bring your usual papercrafting tool kit

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For regular Bookbinding Club participants:

If you could all please bring along a Show & Tell item (or several!) of something you've been working on, or something of interest to share with the group, that'd be swell :)

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"MYSTERY MATERIAL" MONTHLY CHALLENGE:

If you're keen to participate, the challenge is to make some kind of a book that uses the 'mystery material' in a creative way.

I'll bring along a few previous examples from past challenges to show at this week's Bookbinding Club, or, alternatively, you can see them on Instagram with the hashtag #MonthlyMysteryMaterial :)

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Speaking of monthly challenges and Instagram...

The #AreYouBookEnough theme for May 2025 is Purpose. If you're keen to give it a go, see below at the bottom of this post for more info about the AYBE challenge. If anyone has made a book inspired by any #AYBE theme, please bring it along!

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One final note:

These meetups are a nice opportunity to BYO a bookbinding project to work on (or ask questions about), and maybe even share some of your ideas and plans for projects you'd like to work on this year. Got a particular project or bookbinding technique you'd like to get help with? - just let me know! I'm keen to hear what members would like to see covered in Bookbinding Club :)

We now meet in the front workshop space at Michelle's new Bindery studio - The Nest Creative Spaces warehouse building at 31 Ferry Rd, West End.

Hope to see you there,

Michelle

P.S.

NEED BOOKBINDING SUPPLIES?

Please direct message me (or email michelle@shelbyville.com.au) so that I know exactly what to bring along on the day :)

I offer:

• Awls for $5 each
• Bone folders (genuine bone) for $15 each
• Coloured waxed linen bookbinding thread (choice of 35 colours! - let me know what colour you're after) for $1 per metre (ie $5 for 5m is a standard measure)
• Leather pieces (individually priced, approx $15-$20 per piece)
• Bookbinding kits (with all the instructions and materials provided in the kit) for $65 (2 x mini leatherbound books) or $70 (A7 little leatherbound book)

and

• Gift Vouchers to attend any of my bookbinding workshops in 2025/26 for $200 each.

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#ARE YOU BOOK ENOUGH

Monthly world-wide bookbinding challenge, just search for the hashtag #areyoubookenough on Instagram.

Or visit the website for detailed instructions: www.editions.studio/areyoubookenough/

MONTHLY THEMES 2025:

JANUARY Wild
FEBRUARY Binding
MARCH Layers
APRIL Organic
MAY Purpose
JUNE Retro
JULY Freedom
AUGUST Games
SEPTEMBER The 5 Senses
OCTOBER Round and Round
NOVEMBER Space
DECEMBER Colour