A book tutorial

I had been toying for some time with the idea of needle books and finally got around to making one.

But then, I wasn't all that satisfied with how the first want behaved and also wanted to make a tutorial.

So, here we go:

First you have to make your pages, I reccommend a thin non fray fabric so that you don't need to do anything to the edges.

Next, you hold a pairof your cut pieces, fold in half and draw a line that nicely divides it in half.

You repeat this one step a few times, and each of these sets will be four pages in your book. 

Then comes the part about putting them together. This part pretty much has to be done by hand.

You're going to want to sew the fabric closest to the line of stitching of the outermost page to the fabric in basically the same place in another set of four pages.

You also do this a lot.for my second book,  I had six of theses sets of four pages. They are all joined in exactly the same manner.

 Terribly sorry for the quality on some of these. Anyway, we proceed until we have all the pages joined. Then it's time for the cover

The purple rectangles, are the size of the pages plus a centimeter adden in height and another in length,  so that your cover will be just a tad bigger than your pages and cover them nicely. they are separated by a 3 cm wide rectangle that will be the spine.  Extra fabric is seam allowance ( please add more seam allowance than what I added here, makes it much easier)
you will cover the area of these 2 purple rectangles with fusible interfacing.

Here you will determine which will be the front cover, and which the back cover. And embroider the title or something on the front cover.

I really wantedd to do a little book of mudora but it didn't quite turn out.

You add 3 more layers of fusible interfacing and some  nice thick padded upholstery fabric.

And start folding the edges and sewing.

You then sew right on top of these blue lines to reinforce the place where you will attach the pages.

Then you attach the pages to the cover by hand.

And there you go, you have a book.

I still feel like I should add a sunflower to the cover.