Mini Book Tutorial
I made the book featured in this tutorial for a friend, it was her birthday (Shout out to you reading this!!!!!!!)
Buster is, of course, an optional add on. The book on the end in the photo above is my favourite book. I made it to look like a mini spell book. It has black pages, a midnight star fabric cover, gold lettering, everything!
You Will Need . . .
- Paper
- Thread
- Needle
- Card
- Glue
- Fabric
- Fabric paint
- Jewellery ring and/or keyring and or necklace.
Booking, BinDing, Making. . .
Fold ordinary office/printer paper in half lengthways, then fold in half again. Rule out squares/ rectangles (your choice what shape book you make) along the folded edge to make up the pages of your book.* Cut out pages.
*I hate measuring lines, it always goes wrong, I just make the pages as wide as my metal ruler, it makes a nice small necklace sized book. If I want a larger book I use a wider plastic ruler.
Assemble five booklets and two end papers, I like to use coloured paper for the end papers but you don't have to.
Using a drawing pin, punch five holes down the center of each booklet and endpaper.
You might want to make a template for the holes, it makes it easier to get each booklet exactly the same.
Sewing/Binding guide
I have colour coded the steps. The red arrows indicate that the thread can be seen from the outside spine of the book and the green arrows indicate the thread should be seen from the inside page of the book.
Just in case the sewing guide is too confusing I have also pictured each step below. You probably won't need it but its there if you do.
Note on step 13 - Simply tie 13 and 1 together then move on to step 14.
I made the cover out of a recycled cereal box.
Press the cover under some books as it dries.
I use a drawing pin to punch a hole into the top of the spine of the book and loop through a jewellery ring. That way the book can be added to a necklace.