The BookMooch Journals

This journal is for original designs of your own.
I stopped using knitting patterns about 30 years ago, instead check my tension, work out a design for the person I am knitting for with their measurements and preferences and then calculate needles size and wool type, stitch and row numbers, colours and designs and off I go!
I can’t knit much now because of a physical problem, but the socks I knit Mark last far longer than bought ones, which he often goes through in a day, it takes 6-8 weeks’ wear for him to hole my 3-ply ones knitted with wool my mother bought before she died in 1976. He finds the thinner ply equally warm and more comfortable. I recently knitted a patch for one he has holed and his comment that the double thickness on the heel was actually more comfortable still has inspired me to design a sock with a double thickness heel, which will be my entry here.
Your entry may be needlework or knitting or crochet, woodwork or metal work or electronics or whatever else you have designed. Whenever I mooch the journal back images of the designs will be uploaded to the journal site slideshow. Alternatively send me jpgs. of your, or other, entries to upload.

Please look at:
The_BookMooch_Journal_Project site page about how journalling works:
https://bookmoochjournals.com/about/

the Bookmooch Wiki entry on journalling:
http://wiki.bookmooch.com/index.php?title=The_BookMooch_Journal_Project

and BookMooch Journals forum:
http://bookmooch.com/m/forum/bookmooch_journals/

Please keep to my journalling guidelines, check your mooch-requestor understands them and keep journals circulating!
Gill T. tennantfamily:U.K.

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Libraries have always been a big and important part of my life. I love to hear stories and see pictures of libraries around the world, and especially I like to hear why that library made an impact to that person.

So, I hope you to share your pictures, artwork, stories and memories of the libraries (academic, public, no matter) that have affected to your life in one way or another. You can tell about the library next door to you, where you’ve been hundreds of times; or maybe you’ll share your thoughts about a library you’ve visited only once but you never forget it; or perhaps it’s a library you’ve only seen pictures of or heard of. Whatever the case – I’d love to hear about the libraries in your life, and how they’ve influenced you.

• Use as many or as few pages of the journal as you need. Please include a date to your entry!
• Repost to bookmooch.com within 2 weeks. Please be respectful of the other entries: don’t alter or cover them up.
• When the journal is full, please contact me and I’ll mooch the journal from you.

Tessa (BMid: teresasa)
Have fun!

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This journal is for original poetry of any type of your own.
I have been clearing our horse’s manure daily recently from a field we have called Wern Fach (Little Bog). It is the site of a former one-acre smallholding on which a family subsisted for generations. The house has gone, the well is in disrepair, but there is such a feeling of history and peace there that I find poems springing unbidden to mind.  I have found that certain places seem to give rise to artistic, musical and poetic inspiration, and a pupil’s mother suggested I should start a journal for original poems. Please add your contribution with your name, BM id and the date of the entry.

Whenever I mooch the journal back images of the pages will be uploaded to the journal site slideshow. Alternatively send me jpgs. of your, or other, entries to upload.

Please look at:

The_BookMooch_Journal_Project site page about how journalling works: https://bookmoochjournals.com/about/

the Bookmooch Wiki entry on journalling:
http://wiki.bookmooch.com/index.php?title=The_BookMooch_Journal_Project

and BookMooch Journals forum:

http://bookmooch.com/m/forum/bookmooch_journals/

Please keep to my journalling guidelines, check your mooch-requestor understands them and keep journals circulating!
Gill T. tennantfamily:U.K.

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Please add anything inspired by rust. I love almost everything about rust (but NOT on my roses!) the color ,the proccess, the scent etc. How do you feel about rust? Please use any media you like. Use as many pages as you like but don’t alter the work of others. Please repost this book on BookMooch within 2 weeks. Have fun!
janwolf

To see the slideshow click the blue underlined link in the journal description above

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As Book Moochers we often get packages with beautiful stamps attached. Please add any stamps you would like to share and then relist this journal within 2 weeks.

janwolf

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This is an interactive Bookmooch journal encouraging you to reinterpret the last person’s entry.

This is how it works:

1) Receive the journal, mark it received on Bookmooch. I suggest you already relist it on your inventory at this point as well.

2) Open it on the last entry and find an aspect of it that you would like to reinterpret/develop on.

3) Use the next page/s (as many as you want) to do so. Write, cut, draw, copy, glue, paint – do whatever you want to add your personal note to what the last person added (don’t ever alter their entry though).

4) This shouldn’t take you longer than two weeks.

Now, if you haven’t done it yet, relist the journal and send it along promptly when somebody asks for it.
When the journal is full, please contact me (BmId: hanhel; hanhel@gmail.com) so that I can mooch it back from you.

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Where would we be without all the ideas that humankind have come up with over the years? Ideas can lead to inventions, and inventions can change the world; just look at the wheel!

Tell us about your favourite invention, or an invention that you think helped to change the world. It can be famous or obscure, or maybe you have ideas for an invention of your own? Feel free to create, draw or write whatever you like on the subject. Use as many or few pages as you want, but please do not alter anyone else’s work.

This is a pass along journal. By mooching this journal you are agreeing to add your entry and relist the journal on the original listing within two weeks.

If the journal is full or needs repair, please reserve it for me, Grace Hall (violabird), and I will mooch it back from you.

Happy Journalling!

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This is an interactive Bookmooch journal challenging you to go complete a task a previous journal participant has sent you on.

This is how it works:

1) Receive the journal, mark it received on Bookmooch. I suggest you already relist it at this point as well.

2) Open it on the last filled page and read what the last person has asked you to do.

3) Complete the task and find something that can prove you actually did: a photograph, some sand, a ticket…

4) Report on your adventure in the journal: Write about it, draw it, make a collage – and obviously include your piece of evidence

5) Think of a new task for the next journaler and write it in the journal. Make sure it’s something that can be done anywhere (for example, not everyone might be able to go to the seaside, but anyone can hug a tree), and don’t ask for things that involve paying money. It also should be possible to complete within two weeks, so that the journal can travel on as quickly as possible.

6) Now, if you haven’t done it yet, relist the journal and send it along promptly when somebody asks for it.
When the journal is full, please contact me (BmId: hanhel; hanhel@gmail.com) so that I can mooch it back from you.

Possibly lost in transit.

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