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lb_leeSneak: Because I couldn't find a decent tutorial of it. -_- For this post.
All you need to make this is one sheet of paper, a flat surface to fold it on, and a pair of scissors! There are online templates to do this digitally, but I do really think it's easier to cut and fold the paper first to see how it works, and then fold it into a little booklet form and write and draw on it directly.
First, you want to take your sheet of paper and fold it into quarters on the long side, thirds on the short side. It will look roughly like this!
Note: folding in thirds is a fiddly process. If you want to get the geometry exactly right, there's a stackexchange post over it, but we just eyeballed it and settled for imperfection, and it was fine.
Then, you want to do the cuts. In this case, I just took my recent little crisis booklet, scanned it, and added page numbers and cut lines in blue. Sorry for the sloppiness! I thought it might give you a better idea of how the page orientation goes.
Click to embiggen!
You might be wondering, "hey, where's page 1 and 14? You said this was a 14-pager and I only see 12 squares!"
Correct! That's because page 1 and 14 (AKA the front and back cover) are on the opposite side of the paper! See, the other side of the paper looks like this:
Click to embiggen!
Once again, the cut marks are added in blue.
Then you fold it up, like a sort of accordion that makes snakey U-turns. It's a difficult thing to explain in text, but just play and noodle with it, and you'll figure it out. The resulting booklet doesn't have the strongest cohesion, but it's a nice compromise for page size vs. number between the 8- and 18-pager!
All you need to make this is one sheet of paper, a flat surface to fold it on, and a pair of scissors! There are online templates to do this digitally, but I do really think it's easier to cut and fold the paper first to see how it works, and then fold it into a little booklet form and write and draw on it directly.
First, you want to take your sheet of paper and fold it into quarters on the long side, thirds on the short side. It will look roughly like this!
Note: folding in thirds is a fiddly process. If you want to get the geometry exactly right, there's a stackexchange post over it, but we just eyeballed it and settled for imperfection, and it was fine.
Then, you want to do the cuts. In this case, I just took my recent little crisis booklet, scanned it, and added page numbers and cut lines in blue. Sorry for the sloppiness! I thought it might give you a better idea of how the page orientation goes.
Click to embiggen!
You might be wondering, "hey, where's page 1 and 14? You said this was a 14-pager and I only see 12 squares!"
Correct! That's because page 1 and 14 (AKA the front and back cover) are on the opposite side of the paper! See, the other side of the paper looks like this:
Click to embiggen!
Once again, the cut marks are added in blue.
Then you fold it up, like a sort of accordion that makes snakey U-turns. It's a difficult thing to explain in text, but just play and noodle with it, and you'll figure it out. The resulting booklet doesn't have the strongest cohesion, but it's a nice compromise for page size vs. number between the 8- and 18-pager!
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Date: 2022-09-23 05:22 pm (UTC)Re: *
Date: 2022-09-23 09:15 pm (UTC)They are easier and more likely to come out with no awkward edges! (Folding in halves and quarters is much easier to do precisely than folding in thirds, which the 14-pagers require. Ours has no two pages the exact same size!)
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Date: 2022-09-24 12:01 am (UTC)thank you!
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Date: 2022-09-25 04:25 pm (UTC)--Hikaru
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Date: 2022-09-25 10:20 pm (UTC)--Sneak
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Date: 2022-09-26 12:25 am (UTC)--Janusz