A Stitch In Time Saves Publication Date for Old Vaquero Sayings Book

 November 7, 2024

   It has been a total labor of love, the first volume of our Old Vaquero Sayings booklet. 

   First up a hand cranked press, then hand collated guts and today the whole kit and kaboodle hand stitched together. And, by hand stitched, I mean actual string poked into the stack of paper and then drawn through the cover and tied in a knot. Now THAT is a hand-u-factored product.

The Hand Stitchers On the Assembly Line at Cattletrack Arts Compound in Scottsdale

  It was tedious and tricky and mind numbingly fun. We hand stitched some 75 books and broke for lunch.

The Stitchers Graduating Class

   While we were stitching, Mark McDowell was putting together the Triple B Old Vaquero Coasters which will be thrown in free for anyone who buys the book.

   The handmade book is $100—with a signed and numbered print run of 100—and the handmade coasters are free with the purchase of the book.      Pretty sweet.

   Here's the first finished book and the first finished set of coasters on the patio tonight.

"Do not hoard treasure. The more you give to others the more you will have to call your own."

—Old Vaquero Saying