Belated post time!
Yesterday's challenge was to learn a new skill of some sort, be it a new binding technique or how to fold a one-page zine. I decided to finally develop a skill I'd been meaning to learn for ages: making a newspaper shopping bag. This is something that should hopefully come in handy should I decide to sell at craft or zine fairs in the future. The bag-making process is as follows:
1. Spend an unsuccessful hour searching online for "paper bag folding instructions".
2. Take apart a paper bag from the last time you went shopping.
3. Take a page of broadsheet and try to work out which of the awkward diagonal creases in the original bag were meant to be there and which were a result of you squashing it down in the bottom of your handbag. Fold newspaper. Unfold newspaper. Curse repeatedly.
4. Realise that the majority of bag-folding is actually very similar to wrapping a present but with one end left open. Feel like a bit of a plank for not figuring this out sooner. Start again.
5. By now your hands should be almost entirely covered in glue. Re-stick the side of the bag that just won't stay together, whilst in the process making a massive tear across the other side.
6. Go away for a while, taking a few deep breaths. Then come back and repeat step four, only this time much calmer and with two doubled-up sheets of newspaper for reinforcement. Not bad for a second attempt, no?
Today's IZM challenge involves checking out a zine that you wouldn't normally read and should be up on the blog later today. Keep checking back!
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