I'm at roughly the halfway point in the sewing. I decided to wrap the signatures in the same blue paper I'm using for the endpapers, as the spine looked pretty naked otherwise. The waxed linen thread is olive green.
It's an odd experience to bind a book before you've read it. I see bits of text at the beginnings and ends of the signatures, and in the middles, but there is no real continuity. It reminds me of the programs that condense text by eliminating every other word; you know there's meaning in there, but you just can't grab onto it!