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Metallic faux leather looks so striking, especially when you pair it with a bold fabric print. If you haven’t worked with it before, never fear – Corinne Bradd’s stylish zipped case demonstrates that it’s much easier than you might think! This project also shows you how to use your fabrics to create bright covers for plain notebooks, for that extra touch of pizzazz on your desk space.
Make a Zipped Case
Cut faux leather, 20cm x 22cm, and two pieces of printed cotton, 10cm x 22cm. Sew a panel to each end of the faux leather, right sides together. Open out, fold the seam to the cotton side and press under a cloth.
Place the panel face up onto quilt wadding and clip in place. Topstitch either side of the seams joining the two fabrics. Trim the wadding to the fabric and bind together with a small zig zag stitch. Trim plain fabric to the same size and lay right sides together.
Cut two pieces of printed cotton, 3cm x 7cm. Turn over and glue 5mm on each short end. Fold each in half and glue over the ends of the zip. Sandwich one edge of the zip inside one end of the fabric layers, so the teeth face the cotton. Use a zipper foot to machine-stitch the zip in place, 5mm from the teeth.
Open out layers and topstitch 3mm from the first seam. Stitch the other edge of t
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