Sunday, 25 September 2016

Little Notebooks


Little Notebooks
 

These are cute colourful little personal notebooks for Serena to write her little secrets in!!

They are very simple to make
You will need some coloured/patterned paper (for the covers) plain paper (for the pages) ruler, glue, pen, scissors or guillotine and sewing machine (no experience is needed)
We made our notebooks 4cm square, so the first step was to measure from the coloured paper two strips 4cm by 8cm
Then used the guillotine to cut them out
Now we put glue to the back of both of the coloured paper, them folded them in half
 
We measured and cut the white paper into 3.5 cm squares
So now we have heaps of pages!!
Serena stacked some of the pages neatly together
Then placed the back cover, making sure that all the seam/binding edges are aliened
Now add the front cover keeping everything aliened
We used a bulldog clip to hold the pages together

Then sew the seam/binding together. We manually turned the sewing machine needle as it was a little too thick for the foot pedal to go through all the pages!!
 

The last step was to tie the cotton ends together so the stitching won’t come undone, then cut it off near the knot and remove the bulldog clip
 

Done
 

You now have a little notebooks!!
 

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