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

November's Bookbinding Club will be held on Friday 14 November 2025.

TOPIC: Make a leather luggage tag.

Using pre cut pieces of natural veg tan leather, learn to sew, dye and edge finish your very own leather luggage tag.

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 November 2025 is Space. 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

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