Leather Journal Cover

[DJole]

This is a project I did as a special request from my longsword school. The logo for the school is tooled onto the front.
The dye color is Angelus Oxblood (requested by the school). (I took the photos before applying another coat of dye, so it looks a lot less patchy now.)
The red thread is "Since Leather Linen Thread for leathercraft M40/0.45MM (red, 0.45MM-90/SPOOL)" ordered from Amazon, sewn using 3 mm stitching iron (JapanGoods) and John James 002 size harness needles.
The outside leather is a good quality tooling shoulder from Tandy (about 3mm thick), and the inner leather is a 1 mm thin leather I've had for years now...probably from Tandy. 
Edges slicked using clear Tokonole. 

This was more complicated than it may seem, since the request was to make this a permanent book cover, rather than a slip-on cover. So the edge stitching goes through the plastic cover of the blank book as well as the leather. I had to make certain that the leather could be glued together around the edges to hide the white cover. 
The third photo shows the black pigskin card pocket, and the reinforcing strip of book binding cloth.
The only things I have left to do is punch a hole in the flap and attach a leather tie strap of some kind (as commissioned).

[HaloJones]

I like the “blotchy” & nice book