Make bookmarks.
If you sew and are anything like me you have tons and tons of fabric scraps sitting around somewhere, they're too small for a large project but too big to just toss and so we set them aside for the day we start quilting.... yeah right. I'm also one of those sewers that is helping to keep Wrights in business by buying their Bias Binding as opposed to making my own so I have all of those little cards laying around too,but I KNEW that one day they would become useful, and that day is today. I was determined to come up w/ a project to use up fabric scraps, Reagan wanted to give her classmates gifts, she mentioned a pillow each... Hahaha, she's a funny girl, 24 kids and 5 days, I don't think so, but bookmarks to accompany their Summer reading books, perfect right ?
So without further ado I went to work, they are so easy to make I figured I'd write a quick tutorial for them, in case some of you out there are in need of quick projects too, and no worries if you don't sew , a hot glue gun works just as well.
Take your cardboard insert from a pkg of binding, or a piece of cardboard measuring 2 inches x 5 inches and a piece of fabric measuring 13 1/2 inches x 3 1/2 inches
Place cardboard in the middle of the fabric
Fold your seam allowance over the edges of the cardboard and using a hot iron, press. do this on all 4 sides.
Once completely covered
Straight stitch close to the edge (or hot glue the edges down)
Stitch around all 4 sides and then take a hole punch, find the center top of your bookmark and punch 1 hole
Take 11 inches of co ordinating ribbon
Thread through the top and voila you have a bookmark to keep or giveaway with a favorite book as a special gift.
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