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Colorful Fabric Book Cover

Save your old bandanas and create a Colorful Fabric Book Cover from Heidi Borchers. This craft is practical, fun and eco-friendly. Use bright colored fabric with easily distinguishable prints - it will help books stand out so your child will never misplace their textbooks.

Colorful Fabric Book Cover
 

Materials:

  • Bandanas (colors and patterns of your choice)
  • Book of your choice
  • Aleene’s Fabric Fusion Peel & Stick Tape
  • Scissors
  • Pencil

Instructions:

  1. Lay book on bandana leaving approximately 3″ at top. Measure and cut to 3″ at bottom.

    Colorful Fabric Book Cover
     
  2. If you are covering book that is larger than standard bandana size, you can add strips of bandanas with Peel & Stick Tape to create larger fabric size.

    Colorful Fabric Book Cover
     
  3. Fold in sides to determine exact size of cover from top to bottom of book. Hand press and mark fold line with pencil.

    Colorful Fabric Book Cover
     
  4. Wrap fabric around book and mark end fold lines with pencil.

    Colorful Fabric Book Cover
     
  5. Apply line of Peel & Stick Tape along top and bottom edges; however, do not apply all the way to the end. You only want to apply the Tape along the bottom between the side fold lines. Remove paper backing and fold up to glue in place.

    Colorful Fabric Book Cover
     
  6. Apply Peel & Stick Tape to each of the corners to the side fold lines. Remove paper backing and fold in fabric along side fold lines.

    Colorful Fabric Book Cover
     
  7. Insert back cover into pocket.

    Colorful Fabric Book Cover
     
  8. Fold book back to insert front cover into front pocket.

    Coloful Fabric Book Cover
     
  9. Determine desired size of pocket. Apply Peel & Stick tape along edges. Fold in edges to create clean edges on pocket.

    Colorful Fabric Book Cover
     
  10. Apply Peel & Stick Tape along edges and bottom of wrong side of pocket. Remove release paper and glue to book cover to create pocket.

    Colorful Fabric Book Cover

 

For a step-by-step video tutorial of this project, check out Bandana Book Covers.

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