Notebook Cover

Yet another Birthday prezzie for a friend, you might even say a bestie. She used always be thee best at writing in school so I'm hoping she'll write some more genuis ideas in this one. The cover is detachable so you can give it a wash or put it on a new notebook roughly the same size. You can always trim the notebooks cover if it's a little too tight to slot into the flaps, I had to trim this down unfortunately.

Whatcha need:
Spiral Notebook
Fabric (durable fabric like upholstery)
Fusible Interfacing (I used a medium weight to suit my fabric)
Bobble or Elastic
Button

So start off measuring around the notebook closed and the length. Mine was 12.7" by 8.3"

Then determine how deep you want the flap to be. I chose 3" and then double it.Cut the interfacing to the notebooks actual measurements so I cut two pieces of 12.7" by 8.3" for the cover and lining. Then two pieces of 6" by 8.3" for the pocket flaps. Then add one inch to the measurements for cutting the fabric so I cut 2 pieces of 13.7" by 9.3" for the cover and I used scrap fabric from an old nurses uniform (thanks to nurse sister). And 2 more pieces of 7" by 9.3". After adding an extra inch mine still turned out too tight so maybe 1.5 would be better?
Iron on the interfacing onto the back of your fabric using instructions given on the fabric. Make sure you have the rougher side touching the fabric. Then fold the flaps in half, wrong sides facing and iron.
















With the notebook, measure the elastic (I used a bobble) by placing your thumb where the button should be and wrap to the other side of the notebook. Don't stretch the elastic, then cut it down. Sew it onto the front left of the cover pointing inwards leaving a little bit of the elastic hang out.

Place the lining face up with the two flaps on top with the folds facing inwards and line up the edges. Take more care to line up the interfacing than the actual fabric.

Place the cover on top, wrong side facing and pin down. Start sewing about 1/4 of an inch outside the interfacing leaving a 3 inch gap at the bottom so you can fold it back the right side out. 

Then cut down the corners and any fraying threads. Turn it inside out and sew up the remainder bit. You could to a topstitch to give it that extra oomph but I had no space to do it.. Now get up and make it!