Covering a Notebook!

I haven't kept a diary for a LONG time but I'm forever writing quotes, poems and ideas onto bits of paper which inevitably end up lost! I therefore decided that it would be good to have a nice notebook in which I could write my random things and keep them safe...

I found a good notebook but the cover of it was a bit rubbish and made of fairly thin cardboard... So I decided to cover it! First using wadding and then material and finishing it off with some kind of catch to keep it closed...

Here is my starting notebook

Here is my chosen material, wadding and button

And here is my finished notebook! In order to keep the notebook closed I decided to sew a button to the front cover and some string to the back cover which can then be wrapped around the notebook and then around the button...

This is a close up of the string which I sewed onto the back cover using a sewing machine!

Making Magnets!

I found this awesome tutorial for quilted alphabet magnets:

http://chezbeeperbebe.blogspot.co.uk/2009/10/tutorial-how-to-make-plush-alphabet.html

I thought I'd give it a go, so I found some craft magnets on ebay (100 for £3.05), dug through my bucket of material scraps and set to work; here is the result (the K and S being for two friends of mine!)

I'll definitely be making more for gifts in the future!!