I slept with the first Coptic Stitch book that I made. I slept with it on my nightstand next to my bed the first night I brought it home after I had made it in class that day. It was February 2009, and I took my first Coptic Stitch book making class with Marsha Shaw at The San Francisco Center for the Book. That day I worked on (not all that successfully) The Coptic Stitch. It was long before that February of 2009 that I realized I had a fascination for book making. I have collected bookmaking books for many years. Book making has always captured my attention, even in 7th grade when I made my very first “real” book for a poetry project. Over the years, I had collected many more books on making books than the number of books I had actually made. I think the reason I hesitated was precision. Ugh. All that precise measuring stopped me every time. It just seemed like such a fine science, and I just didn’t think I was authorized or mature enough to take part in such practice. I absolutely honor the precision, talent, discipline and dedication it takes for book making and guess I thought I would leave bookmaking to the professionals!
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