This morning I cut the material for the third book cover and pinned everything in place. This afternoon during rest and nap time for the kids I sewed up the book cover and did the small section of hand sewing needed on all three book covers.

The covers have a sleeve on the inside left, a ribbon bookmark, and two elastic bands on the right side. The front cover of the book slides into the sleeve on the inside left. The right side of the cover folds over the back cover of the book and is held in place with one of the elastic bands. The second elastic band can be used to hold the whole book closed.

The two elastic bands allow for the cover to fit a variety of widths of books instead of having a sleeve on the inside on both sides which would limit the number of books it could fit.

I am so happy to finish up another project that has been hanging out in a plastic bag on the back of the chair in my sewing room. Now I have put away the leftover fabric (I have an idea for this fabric but that is a thought for another day) and other supplies. I will need to keep the book covers in my sewing room until the person I made them for can pick them up, but they are finished and they have new home they will be going to very soon!

Now that I have finished the book covers I am looking forward to continuing to work on other projects that are ready to see the light of day again after being abandoned in half-finished projects pile for weeks or months.

I’d like to work on the denim skirt for my daughter over the next couple of days and get that project completed so she can start wearing it.

Tomorrow is Saturday so I may or may not have a good amount of sewing time. It depends on the weather and whether or not we go out and do something as a family before lunch. I will have rest time to sew for awhile but may not work on projects in the morning as well.