How to make your own notebook – Do you like colors? And paper? And sewing? What about sewing a notebook tailored exactly to your taste? Oh, you’ll love this one. It’s an easy, step-by-step tutorial to make adorable homemade notebooks. And that using one single straight stitch on your sewing machine. Make it just the way you like it! Also, feel free to add these free printable tags I offered a while ago.
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How To Make Your Own Notebook
See how to make your own notebook (or ten) and enjoy this easy crafting project. I made 8 diy notebooks in half an hour – and that includes taking photos and selecting the colors!
You will need:
- 5 sheets of A4/lettersize paper per notebook, each cut in half (=getting 10 sheets)
- one piece of A5/half-letter size paper for the notebook cover (something you really like 🙂
- a piece of other colored paper, to use it on the cover
- scissors or cutting knife
- sewing machine
- optional: decorative materials (scrapbooking stickers, washi tape, these free printable tags)
Steps to Make A Notebook:
So this is was my current collection of DIY notebooks:
1) Washi tape. These cute pieces are selling like hotcakes on Etsy.
2) Fun scrapbooking stickers, like these.
3) But you’ll get the most for your money if you get yourself some STAMPS (you can make literally hundreds of marvelous cover pages using one single stamp 🙂
BONUS HINT No 2:
Sylvia Harrow says
What size of machine needles did youuse for the paper notebook?
Damjana says
Sylvia hi,
a great question! It’s been such a long time since I did this tutorial. What I’m sure is that I used Universal needles, not the thinnest ones – I’d say these were in the 80-90 range. Hope this helps,
Richella Parham says
What a great idea! This would be a wonderful little gift!
Damjana says
Richella,
thank you so much for dropping by, I’m happy you’ve found me. The blog is not even two months old! 🙂 Have a wonderful weekend, Damjana
Cathy McInnes says
This is really cool! I love that you sewed a notebook! 🙂
Cathy @ three kids and a fish
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Thank you, the pile of those notebooks in more 'cheerful' colors is getting bigger and bigger 🙂