North Redwoods Book Arts Guild

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Monday, October 28, 2024

3-D TREES

NORBAG is very lucky to have many talented members to teach us new structures. Our November workshop will be a collaboration between Mary Conley and Margaret Beech. Mary will demonstrate an origami sculpture of a tree using a single square piece of paper.

Mary's tree

With just squares of light card or heavyweight paper Margaret will show us how to make a Christmas tree that "grows" and can be collapsed to store to be part of your holiday decorations year after year. 

Margaret's tree

Materials List

Mary's Tree:
  • One large (12 inches or more) square of thin paper. Mary uses Taro's Origami paper from Amazon, which is 13.8 inches square. Thin wrapping paper would do as long as it folds easily.
  • Bone folder
  • pencil
  • ruler
  • Xacto knife or box cutter
  • A separate piece of white paper on which to draw a template
Margaret's Tree:
  • The following sizes of squares should all be cut from medium weight cardstock or heavy weight paper. Margaret suggests using differing shades of green for a festive theme.
  • Three 6 inch squares
  • Three 5 inch squares
  • Three 4 inch squares
  • Three 3 inch squares
  • The same tools as for Mary's tree with the addition of paper clips and a glue stick

When:   Saturday November 9 at 10 a.m. PST
Where:  On your computer, tablet or smartphone via Zoom
RSVP:    Dolores Guffey by Nov. 4 to receive the password
Workshop Questions:  Mary Conley - sculptsster@gmail.com
Margaret Beech - beeches1313@gmail.com
Zoom Questions: Bobbie Hayes
Contact information is in the newsletter

Sunday, October 13, 2024

BOOK EXCHANGES

 On October 6th, PSBA (Puget Sound Book Artists) held their sixth annual book exchange. It is somewhat modeled after NORBAG book exchanges except that there is only one exchange a year. This year the theme was "Threads" and 23 members participated. Shown below is a sample of some of the beautiful books that were exchanged.

Abbie Birmingham

Debbi Commodore

Jan Ward

Lynn McClain

Esther Ervin

Janet Reynolds

Bonnie Julien


Lynn Skordal

Elsi Vassdal Ellis

Mari Eckstein Gower

Kim Izenman

Dorothy McQuistion

Lynne Olson

Belinda Hill


Sally Alger

Kat Gower

Becky Frehse

Lisa Leong Tsang