Monthly Archives: August 2014

Cabin Life in Squares

When I was in Wilsonia recently, there was a fun new thing happening. Quilt squares!

One of the parts of Wilsonia cabin life is a quilting group. There are a number of women who just love to quilt, and they even have a week or a weekend (can’t remember) when they all bring their sewing machines and spend days just quilting together.

This summer they each painted a 2×2′ square with a quilt design of their choice. Then, each one of the participating quilters hung the square on her cabin. My friend and I really enjoyed discovering these bright patches.

Commissions of Wilsonia Cabins

I got to visit Wilsonia again. In spite of the book being finished on my end, there are some more cabins to draw. In fact, there are enough cabins that I could make another book.

Forget it.

There are 4-5 cabin folks who said they’d like me to draw their cabins. One chose the size and put down a 50% deposit. The others did not.

I took the photos anyway. In the olden days of film, I didn’t take photos until I had that deposit. Otherwise, it was just conversation.

Guess I’ve dropped my guard or my standards or my business-like demeanor. Maybe I’m more trusting. Maybe it just doesn’t matter if they change their minds.

These are cabins that only appear in the book as a detail or two. That is because they were too hard to photograph. With 200+ cabins to draw, it wasn’t necessary to do the really difficult ones.

Looks as if I might get to do some of the really difficult ones after all.

That’s fine. I love to draw. Have I mentioned that yet?

A Proof Copy

What’s a proof copy??

It’s an unbound copy of the book (The Cabins of Wilsonia) on paper. The pictures and type are the correct size but it is on oversized paper with trim lines.

I asked what I am looking for, since I provided camera ready copy. The answer was this:

“In the proofs, you should be looking to see if all elements at printing per your expectations. Are the running heads aligning correctly? Are the margins correct? Are the images in place correctly? Watch for font issues. Sometimes they do weird things and throw a symbol or wrong font in there. Otherwise, just make sure it looks good and meets your expectations. If you’re not sure of something be sure to ask. Once it’s printed it will be expensive to fix.”

Teeheehee – “Once it’s printed it will be expensive to fix.” (And did you notice the typo in the quote from the printer?)

No kidding! I’d have to pay to have it reprinted!

I found one little thing – there were 2 spaces between a couple of words. I thought about leaving it and then having a contest to see if anyone could find it. I changed my mind. It is now fixed.

I also noticed that the type is sort of biggish-looking. Since I know more folks who use reading glasses than those who do not, this is fine. It was intentional, but I didn’t know it would be sort of like an easy-reader look. Still, this is fine.

I thought it was going to be here by the end of September. Now I am not sure.

More will be revealed in the fullness of time.

Have You Pre-ordered Your Copy Yet?

The Cabins of Wilsonia is not yet printed but it is for sale. If you buy it before September 15, the price is $70, which includes tax and shipping. Actually, the price via Paypal is $69.99 because no matter how I manipulate the numbers, I cannot get it to be $70 even! Or, I could if I changed the shipping to $5.01. . . .

Nah. I’m tired of messing with the computer stuff. I think my Adobe InDesign experiences will have me feeling jumpy about computers for quite awhile yet.

~~So, if you’d like to pre-order your copy, you may do so here using this Paypal button:~~