COVER FOR NOTEBOOKS

BACK TO SCHOOL IN STYLE WITH NEW COVERS FOR THE NOTEBOOKS!!!!!

The first assignment of every school year is always the same... "Please, cover your preschoolers notebook and music book".
So this year I started a little bit earlier to make a nice and special cover.

 

First I took the measurements and cut it out the covers of some old kids magazines. This I will put in the selfmade covers, to give it some strength.
Then I had a look in my wardrobe and found some old clothes.
I will use the pants of my pregnancy pajamas for Roos her covers and another old pregnancy pants and an old baby shirt for Stan his cover. So it will be a little recycling project... Here we go!!!!

First I cut my sons name out of the old baby shirt.

On the backside of the letters I iron some vlieseline to make it stronger and to prevent unraveling. 

 For my daughters name I'll use flock foil

The rectangular I cut out of the fabric (pants) has the following measurements:
- twice the length of the notebook, and
- the width of the notebook added by 3 cm.

I iron also vlieseline on this for the same reason as mentioned above.

 First I hem the short sides

  

Then I sew the name, pocket, embroidery or iron the flock foil,...

For the next step I flip both sides around the notebook to the middle (wrong side out and the good side in). Pin the top and bottom (long sides) around the notebook (approximately at 1 cm of the border on top and at the bottom). Then take the notebook out and sew the long sides top and bottom.

This is the result:

The front

 

 The inside

 

 The back