How To Make A Needle Book

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Skill Level : Piece Of Cake..

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Here's a really quick and easy way to use up those last scraps of fabric to make a dinky place to keep your sewing needles or safety-pins.

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You will need :

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2 pieces of fabric for the cover

2 pieces of felt

Pinking shears

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Cut your 2 pieces of fabric to double the width you want your book to be.

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With right sides together, overlock or sew both long edges and one short edge, leaving one short edge un-sewn.

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Turn inside out, push out the corners and press seams with an iron.

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Fold the open (un-sewn) edge inwards and then top-stitch all edges.
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Fold the cover of your book in half and press with an iron to give you a crease down the "spine"

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Pin the 2 pieces of felt together. Use enough pins to make sure the layers of felt can't slip.
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Using your Pinking Shears, cut all 4 edges of your felt so that they are slightly smaller than the size of your cover.

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Once you're happy with the size of your felt, pin to cover and then sew along the crease you ironed down the middle of your cover.
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Your book should now look like this:

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You can either call this the finished article, or you can then top-stitch the middle of the book. All this does is stop the pages always falling open at the middle. (Not a great explanation, sorry!)

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Once you've got the hang of it, you can embellish your covers as much as you want!

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