The Gordian Knot. . .

. . . that is my brain will surely explode with this latest book puzzle.  The star book is truly a lovely artist book form, and I've been wanting to try it for a long time.  My grey matter, however, may not be up to the task again any time soon.

This is the second model I've made, and I managed to reduce my errors to one major and two minor ones, all ultimately hide-able.  It's a huge improvement from my first go, believe me!

Though the pockets are not yet filled, the bones are there, and I can move forward to a 'final final' when the mood hits again.

With a pair of covers, four precision-cut layers, and the first two requiring sewing, it's quite an undertaking.

Never has my pile of several-pounds-heavy art books had so much use for pressing those glued layers together, either.

By the time the beading, stitching, gluing and covers were all done, it was fully a three day project (not including the time it took to rewrite the indecipherable instructions used for the first attempt).  

I'll have to make several more of these to justify the time I spent on the first couple of them.  Won't that be a creative hardship!! 😄  The art book saga will undoubtedly continue for a long, long, time.