Back in the college days of Michigan State University I took a print making class to fill in some needed art credits – I was an art major, it made sense. But I don’t have fond memories of the class and have had an aversion towards carving pictures and stamping/printing them ever since.  Maybe because it was summer and really hot in that classroom, maybe I really hated some of the people in there or maybe the teacher was just a big cranky human being. I don’t know! I just didn’t want to revisit the skill I dabbled in for one quick summer semester.

But I’m moving on now, just many years later.

Today I bought these:

I am pretty sure I have some lino cutting tools stashed away somewhere but I rather just spend the money for new ones then dig out those dull accidents waiting to happen. Anyways! Leann put out a request at our last art meeting for some other people to make pages for her cloth book. She makes some rather kick butt stuff and I jumped at the chance for the trade.  And there is no better way for me to make something for my group’s expert stamp carver than to carve something.