Fabric Diary Cover

Being fed up of the same old hard back diary cover each year I decided to personalise it this year and make something different.   I found a wool scarf in a charity shop and used this as my base for 2012's diary. It also gave me an opportunity to use my new sewing basket I had for Christmas, I had to add the picture!



First you need to place your hardback diary on to the scarf and draw around it with tailors chalk leaving a 2.5" gap at each end to fold in to the cover to hold the diary in place and a 1cm gap on the top and bottom.

Next you need to pin around all the edges ready to sew on the machine, then carefully  sew these into place using thread which can either be the same colour or like I have used a contrasting colour.

Fold this around the diary as below to see if you are getting a good fit and make 2 small stitches around the top and bottom of each fold ready to fix into place with a blanket stitch.

Then the blanket stitch!  Go around the diary with a similar or contrasting thread to create a neat and cosy looking cover.  You also need to cut out a heart and do the same around the outline of the heart before you secure onto the diary.

Finally you need to pin the heart into place on the front of the diary cover before stitching into place from the back of the diary cover.

and there you have it, your very own diary cover.   Thank you for reading and catch me next time for some bakery.  Lemon and poppy seed muffins!   Until then....

TTFN

Stephanie x