Tutorial: Fabric covered notebook.

I used up the last page of my journal 3 nights ago. So I have made a new one. 

Here is how I did it:

Fabric Covered Journal

(You may want to center the pocket better than I did)       

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What you need:

Composition book

Two fabrics. (One that you can open your

book on with room to spare and one that is a lot smaller for a pocket is Optional.)

Scissors 

Hot glue gun 

Glue rods for the glue gun

Plug in your glue gun and let it warm up

While you are waiting open up your book on the fabric and....

cut around leaving about(not exact) a one inch border

Next, notch the corners

Like so:

then when the gun is hot run a line of glue along one side.

Quickly! fold over the fabric before the glue cools(I hate glue guns.)

On the top and bottom ends you get something like this:

So you need to cut a triangular notch like this:

Repeat till all sides are glued

Optional

Now cut a square of fabric that is about half and inch bigger on all sides than you want your pocket to be.

And run glue along the bottom side of the fabric(on the right side of the fabric) and place it where you want the bottom of the pocket to go. It should fold over like this:

Hem the top edge by running some glue along the veeery edge and folding it over with the wrong sides together.

Now fold over one side and run glue along the right side that is exposed (like in the pic) then flip the piece up and repeat on the other side.

You will want to position you pocket better than I did.