FOBA 2026 - Selene Fisher - Whimsical Little Houses All in a Row

Focus on Book Arts 2026

Selene Fisher
Whimsical Little Houses All in a Row - Saturday June 27, 2026

Read more about FOBA 2026 on their website!
https://focusonbookarts.org/2026-foba-conference/

Workshop Description:

Are you charmed by the repeating shapes you see in lines of hillside houses? Are you intrigued by urban sketching? We’ll explore new neighborhoods by constructing our own little wonky row houses bound into a quirky accordion book.

The class will begin by building a model using different sewn edge binding styles (baseball stitch and wire-edge) and assorted house figures. Once this is mastered, the rest of the class will be spent building the streets of each student’s choice using die cuts, rubber stamps, paint and ink, and colorful papers. Each student will end up with one or more row house accordions.

Materials/equipment to be provided by students:

• Knife
• Cutting mat
• Ruler
• Pencil
• Eraser
• Scissors
• Bone folder
• PVA and brush
• Awl
• Binding needles
• Scraper or old room key card
• Mark making tools of student’s choice (e.g., stencils, stamps, inkpads, paint, pens, etc.)• Acrylic gel medium and brush
• Fineline black pen (like Pigma Micron)

Optional:

• Wire cutters (diagonals)
• Jewelry-sized duck-billed or needle-nose pliers
• Japanese hole punch, or 1/16” or 1/8“ hole punch
• Colorful collage paper (gelli prints, napkins, decorative tissue, etc.)