For first session:
- Text paper (one piece at least 18 x 24”)
- Practice folding paper and additional scrap paper (larger than 8.5 x 11”)
- Thread for sewing (all these work: linen, embroidery, cotton pearl, buttonhole)
- Sewing needle with an eye large enough for your thread
- Thick catalogue or discarded book for poking holes
- 12” ruler, longer if you have one (or a long, straight piece of heavy cardboard)
- Cutting tool with a new blade (all these work: utility knife, x-acto, scalpel)
- Cutting mat or a piece of scrap cardboard to cut on
- Scissors
- Bone folder (or popsicle stick or the handle of a spoon or equivalent)
- Sharp pencil
- Eraser
For the second session:
- Scissors
- Cutting tool
- Cutting mat
- Bone folder
- Sharp pencil
- Binder’s board
- Mat board, or other sturdy cardboard (size determined by size of pages)
- Glue (all these work: Elmer’s Glue, Sobo Glue, Yes Paste, bookbinder’s mixture)
- Brush to apply the glue
- Decorative paper for the cover
- Scrap paper (8.5 x 11” or larger to glue on)