Yes, quarantinezines are a thing, and of course, an Instagram hashtag. A quarantinezine is a zine (homemade magazine) people are making during quarantine. My zine is about the Silver Linings I am finding in the Covid cloud.
I made mine for my "card partner", Lois. The Westcoast Calligraphy Society June program challenged us to make a card from a sheet of calligraphy practice, and assigned us a card partner to send our card to. You can see my orange warm-up strokes in the two pictures above, and I practiced writing Lois' name before I folded the zine. After it was folded, I added the silver linings in criss-cross capitals and script. I included some drawings and couldn't resist the silver foil.
A zine is an 8 page book made from any size of paper, but often made from letter sized paper - simple copy/computer paper.
Here is some more information on zines along with some simple instructions on how to fold a zine. Of course there are YouTube videos available.
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