u/KaiTheDumbGuy

Genuinely he's the best teacher I've ever had in my life, he's so supportive and helpful in every area, and is incredibly engaging and good at teaching. My final lesson with him is on Friday and I'm kinda sad about that, but I made him this as a thank you! The pages are somewhat upside down but um. Idk what to do about that. So that's just how it is.

Anyways I made everything including the band, it's embroidery thread not elastic but because it's done with knots it has a bit of stretch to it anyway. That I used a pattern for to help me get started, cause I'd never done anything that complicated before, everything else I either made up or knew how to do. For the paper for the book, I had to buy some stapled together A4 exercise books, so I could get A5 pages with lines going the right way (was significantly cheaper than printing lines in the right orientation cause I only have access to the school printer, but I discovered that not all the lines lined up, despite the exercise books being from the same company, so I probably should've printed it myself). I don't know the name for the method with which I bound it, it's just the like easy one that ends up with a kinda braided look on the spine.

The cover is cotton fabric over cardboard (it was my first time buying fabric cut to measure and I was freaking out about asking for help cause I didn't know what to do but it turned out fine lol. I fear I should stop freaking out about things like this.), the bead on the end of the ribbon is just some random metal one I had lying around, and yeah the rest is embroidery thread. Used PVA glue for any sticking stuff, it's what I usually use for books and seems to hold up well. Its somewhat wonky, but like, it's functional? Uh so yeah.

I hope he likes it lol

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