When the tab is lifted and the door is opened, the reader is treated to a multi-layered tunnel adorned with floating objects. Kit will guide students through making the tunnel frames, installing the floating images, and attaching the flattened tunnel to a backing page. Students will end up with an unusual, interactive, four-tunnel book, invented by Kit and shared with her students.
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In this workshop, participants will combine their favorite buttons with coordinating papers to make a colorful, one-of-a-kind, five-page book. We will use foam core for the pages and cut niches into them. We’ll then cover the pages with our favorite papers (which coordinate with the style and color of our buttons). Then we’ll stitch our buttons onto a backing and install them into the niches. To protect the stitching holes we’ll use metal eyelets. Kit will teach the slip knot stitch so students can bind their pages together. Students will end up with a five-page book of buttons, preserved and displayed in a fun and unusual way.
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