This Handmade Felt Book-Cover Project really does have
everything you need to know to make a unique felt book cover from Start to
Finish, even if you have never tried wet felting before. It is a 59 page e-book
in PDF format. There are 8 main sections, a small Introduction and a section at
the end with a few tips.
The first section ‘Planning the layout’ explains how to work
out the shrinkage rate from a sample piece of felt, and calculate measurements
to account for shrinkage. There’s a small section about measuring the notebook
you want to make a cover for, and adding on extra for making a flap closure and
straps.
The section on ‘Preparation’ talks about the equipment that
is necessary for making a flat piece of felt and other items which are really
useful, and a few other things that will make the layout and felting stages
easier. No ‘specialist’ equipment is necessary, and nothing expensive; I re-use
and recycle where possible.
The sections ‘Laying out a piece of flat felt’ and ‘The
felting process’ have lots of colour photos and information about laying out
wool tops neatly and evenly; positioning embellishments; wetting, rubbing,
rolling and fulling the felt; and how to get neat edges, so that even the most
inexperienced felter should feel confident enough to try this.
The ‘Cutting out’ and ‘Sewing the notebook’ sections have
lots of photos and tips for making sure your cover, flaps and straps are cut to
the right size, sewn up and attached in the right position. And for anyone who
hasn’t tried blanket stitching before, or those who need a refresher (or some
of us, like me, who need to be reminded how to start no matter how often we do
it!) there is a section about sewing two pieces of felt together – for the
edges of the cover; and also attaching one piece of felt on top of another – for
sewing the flap and straps to the cover.
The ‘Tips’ section at the end has some alternate ideas for
using a variety of colour shades on your top layer, how to identify the front
and back of a delrin clip, tips for customising embroidery floss, and some
suggestions for alternative closures if you want to try something different.
Although this is a complete project to make a cover like the
one pictured, it is simple enough to omit some of the steps and just make a
plain book cover without the closure.
I hope you find this tutorial useful and enjoy reading
through it, I’d love to hear your feedback and see the book covers you make :)
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Thanks for showing us the felted book cover - love it.
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