Notebook Cover (WIP)

[Mablung]

1 hour ago, MarshalWill said:

I like the subtle antiquing you ended up with. It came out fine. Congrats.

You say you'll rebuild it. In what manner? Why not just dye the tab and be done with it?

Just make the dimensions a bit bigger. I made it slightly too small for my sermon notebook, so I cut it down for this other notebook and still made it a bit small. So for the notebook I carry to church every Sunday, I need a bigger cover anyway. This one will mainly live on my side table at home, so I don’t feel like trying to match the dye. I’ll just mix a new batch for the next cover and dye every component all at once. 

[MarshalWill]

4 hours ago, Mablung said:

Just make the dimensions a bit bigger. I made it slightly too small for my sermon notebook, so I cut it down for this other notebook and still made it a bit small. So for the notebook I carry to church every Sunday, I need a bigger cover anyway. This one will mainly live on my side table at home, so I don’t feel like trying to match the dye. I’ll just mix a new batch for the next cover and dye every component all at once. 

Good plan. I look forward to seeing the next one.

[Frodo]

On 2/24/2024 at 9:16 AM, Mablung said:

I’ll ask for suggestions on this part: I’m trying to decide whether to dye this thing. On the one hand, I kinda like the natural look, but on the other hand, a nice brown sounds nice, with some antiquing. I’ll use dark brown Ritza 25 0.8 mm thread to stitch the notebook cover sleeve panels and the perimeter. Maybe that will contrast nicely with the natural veg tan conditioned with Obenauf’s Heavy LP, which will darken the leather a bit anyway. 

I see you dyed it

if you want a more natural  on your next project. Do not dye it. Seal the undyed leather with tan kote 

 

[Mablung]

3 hours ago, Frodo said:

I see you dyed it

if you want a more natural  on your next project. Do not dye it. Seal the undyed leather with tan kote 

 

Snazzy; I like that look. I’ll try that on the next one. Thanks for the suggestion. 

[Frodo]

As you can see,   I am letter straight challenged. 

[Mablung]

1 hour ago, Frodo said:

As you can see,   I am letter straight challenged. 

Lol. That’s two of us, then.