If you can dream it, you can create it - or so says our hand-sewn journal cover! Designed by Corinne Bradd, this practical project is a must for keeping your latest dressmaking ideas, sketches and fabric swatches in one place. It's also a great opportunity to creative with chain stitch embroidery, too.
1 Open a hardback notebook and lay face down. Measure the dimensions and cut interfacing 1cm bigger in both directions. Trim printed and plain fabric 1cm deeper and 15cm wider than the interfacing. Iron the interfacing to the centre of the printed fabric, wrong side up.
2 Place the fabric rectangles right sides together and sew down the short ends with a 5mm seam allowance. Fold one end of the printed fabric right sides together along the line of interfacing. Stitch from the fold to the interfacing on both sides, then flatten the fabric and sew the same distance on the lining