Beautiful cover for a culinary notebook

Any housewife probably has a notebook in which she writes down her favorite recipes for every day, as well as her grandmother’s most delicious recipes. And many even keep these same grandmother’s notebooks, for sure that before they were still old Soviet notebooks, which have the most ordinary and ugly covers, and if such notebooks lie for years, then it goes without saying that their covers will wear out or tear. And in general, it’s quite undignified and ugly for a culinary masterpiece to have a simple, office cover. But there is a very creative and fairly simple way out of this situation. You can turn your ordinary culinary notebook into a real cookbook with a very bright and beautiful cover on a culinary theme. We will make such a cover from fabric with a layer of synthetic padding so that the book is plump. Our well-known and beloved scrapbooking. So, let’s not languish for a long time, but let’s get started right now.

To sew the cover we will need to take:

• Notebook with recipes, in this master class the notebook is 12*18 cm in size;
  
• Binding sheet of cardboard 1.5 mm thick;
  
• Sintepon 100 sheets;
  
• The fabric is thick red cotton with small white polka dots and white cotton with kitchen motifs;
  
• Two culinary pictures;
  
• White cotton lace;
  
• Bronze corners, 4 pcs;
  
• Brads are red;
  
• Metal kitchen pendants;
  
• Red fabric flower;
  
• Chipboard “Cookbook”;
  
• Scrapbooking paper;
  
• Curb hole punch;
  
• Satin ribbon with a pattern;
  
• Red lace napkin;
  
• White cardboard;
  
• Glue stick, double-sided tape, glue gun;
  
• Glass effect glue;
  
• Bandage, white paper, scissors, ruler, pencil.

Carefully remove the cover from our ready-made notebook.


We take binding cardboard and divide it into the following parts: 2.2 cm * 18.5 cm and two 12.3 * 18.5 cm.


We cut the cardboard, measure out two strips of 4*18.5 cm from white cardboard. With these strips we connect all the parts of the binding cardboard into one. Glue with a glue stick.


Draw the bend lines with scissors. Glue the padding polyester with strips of double-sided tape.


Now let's take the fabric.


We cut off one red piece and two kitchen ones. We also need two strips of lace and two strips of ribbon.


We iron the fabric, then sew it together, and sew lace at the joints. Now we turn the fabric over, put the binding cover on it, coat the corners and wrap it. Then we coat the edges, wrap tightly and glue.


Fold the cover and try on the pictures and napkin. Sew the cover along the edge, then the pictures.


Now, with the help of brads, we need to secure the pendants and the flower.


Now for the main block we need to make endpapers from scrap paper. We cut out rectangles 18*24 cm. Divide the 24 cm side in half, 12 cm each, and draw a line of bends.


Sew a pocket onto both endpapers.


Now coat the edge of the block well with a glue stick. We attach and glue one endpaper, now there is another endpaper below.


We cut off the white paper, smear the edge of the block, the edge of the block and also smear the flyleaf on the bottom. We wrap and glue the block with paper. We fasten with clamps.


We cut off a piece of bandage, fold it in half, and glue it to the edge.


Now we insert the block into the cover.


We spread one side, glue one endpaper and clamp it at the top and bottom. Then we glue the second endpaper to the cover and also clamp it. We put the corners on all four corners.


We tie up our notebook, glue on the “Cookbook” chipboard and we’re done. We have published such a bright and beautiful book that will decorate the interior of your kitchen with its beautiful presence. Thank you for your attention!