On Sunday night I went to bowling with a satchel full of zines to be folded and cut. As I was sipping an adult beverage the bartender came over and asked me if I wanted my check or if I was going to continue crafting. She then brought my tab over and my name was filled in as Crafty. Ever since I’ve had the Beastie Boys stuck in my head. I wonder what she would think if she were to see the project that I started today.
I’ve long been interested in mail art but have never thought that I had a concept worthy enough of partaking in the process. After seeing the Peter Madden lecture last week, however, I have had the blanket stitch that uses to hold each page together stuck in my head. Today is struck me that that blanket stitch around pages looked a lot like the envelopes that I used to receive mail from my pen pal in Germany. I immediately grabbed a drawing, folded it in half and began to sew. I have a pile of zines to distribute and so I put one of those in each envelope.
