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Sew a simple book jacket
This book jacket makes a lovely gift to give to a friend or family member that loves to read. This one will cover the standard size paperback book, but you can adjust and customize the size to fit any book.
It doesn't require a lot of fabric and would be a great project for using up some of your stash. You need 2 pieces of material measuring 23 cm. x 42 cm. That's about 9 inches x 16.5 inches for those of you that are non-metric. You will also need a piece of quilt batting the same size. If you didn't have quilt batting you could use an extra piece of material just to make it a bit more sturdy.
Lay the 2 pieces of fabric with the right sides together and add the batting to the top. Stich around all the edges but leave an opening about 4 cm. wide on one side. This is so you can turn it inside out. To add a bookmarker ribbon, lay a piece of ribbon between the right sides of the fabric. (I forgot that picture). Be sure it only gets sown into one seam. You might need to tuck it up between the right sides so that it doesn't get sown twice.
The tricky part is to turn the book jacket inside out through the opening. This requires some careful poking, pushing and pulling.
Before turning be sure to trim off the corners. I forgot to do this while making this book jacket so had to poke each corner back through the opening and snip off the corner.
Snipping off the corners will make a much neater corner when the book jacket is turned in the right way.
Many sewers will skip this next step, which is pressing. I think it is a very important step as it will give you a much neater top stitched row. Once the book jacket is turned so that the right sides are showing press all edges carefully.
Do a row of top stitching all around the book jacket.
When you get to the neatly pressed opening you left, just top stitch right over the opening.
Lay the book jacket so that the inside is facing you. Fold each end over about 5.5 to 6 cm. and top stitch the top and bottom edges to form 2 pockets. This is where you will tuck the cover of the book.
Here is the finished item with the book tucked inside. The ribbon will be the bookmarker. When closed it will look like the first picture in this series. You can download the instructions in pdf format. ©Crafty Gardener
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