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Make a 100 page Notebookby chebang on August 2, 2006

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intro: Make a 100 page Notebook .................................................................................................

step 1: Making the Cover .......................................................................................................

step 2: Preparing the Inside .....................................................................................................

step 3: Preparing to Stitch ......................................................................................................

step 4: Stitching in the Booklets into the Cover .......................................................................................

step 5: Stitching cont... .........................................................................................................

step 6: Finishing Touches ......................................................................................................

step 7: Finishing Touches pt.2 ...................................................................................................

step 8: Finishing Touches pt. 3 ...................................................................................................

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intro: Make a 100 page NotebookI am so tired of looking for new notebook and never find exactly what I want. So I thought, why not make my own? This tutorial will show you how to make your ownnotebook using an old record album cover. It also teaches a sewn in bookbinding technique. It may be that you have all these materials at home or somethingcomparable. I used what I had at home. Here is what you'll need:

1. An old record album cover or any other large sized cardstock or thin cardboard. (manilla folder works well, thank-you to commenters below)2. Paper. This could be blank, lined, grapned, colored or anything else you'd like. For this specific project I used blank 8 1/2 x 14 copy paper, otherwise known as legasized paper.3. Thread that won't break, like embroidery thread. (it also must be a cotton, otherwise it will tend to cut the paper and through the binding holes. 100% cotton yarn wogreat as well, but you'll have to make the holes a couple times larger for binding.4. Embroidery needle or other thick sized needle that will hold embroidery or bookbinding thread.5. Thumb tack.6. Ruler.

7. Pencil.8. Large paper clips.9. Butter knife or bone folder.10. A paper-cutter or really good pair of scissors or a really sharp xacto knife or a box-cutter.

Optional materials:-clear packing tape-colored paper-pens-glue stick-button-yarn-large bead

step 1:Making the Cover1. Start with cutting your album cover so it opens like a book. To do this cut across the top and bottom, following the fold.

2. Then, cut it to these dimensions, 15" x 8 3/4". Leave the middle fold as the center of the cover. Don't try to change the place it will fold from or it will lose it's shape asturdiness.

3. Measure 3/8" out from the center on both the right and left sides. Score the cover from top to bottom on both sides. These scores should run parallel with the centerKeep in mind that the side you score it on is the side that will be the outside of the cover. I chose the white, or inside, to be the cover. I wanted to decorate it with a blaslate this time.

4. Fold the scored sides in, shaping your cover. Now set aside momentarily.


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step 2:Preparing the Inside5. Fold all your papers in half. I made 5 folded booklets of 10 papers each. This equals 100 total pages. Stack these on top of each other, making sure they are even aplace the cover atop these, making sure to line it up evenly with the booklets.

Using your ruler, measuring 1/4" from one end, mark each booklet and the cover at these three places: 2", 4" and 6". These will be the places where you will stitch youbooklets into the cover.


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step 3:Preparing to Stitch6. Poke five holes at each of the three measurement marks along the spine of your cover.

7. Use the big paper clip to hold each booklet together while you poke the thumbtack into thier spines to make holes for sewing. This will keep the papers lined up nea

8. Poke the thumbtack into each of the three markings on all five booklets.

step 4:Stitching in the Booklets into the Cover9. Now take another clip and re-clip your booklets, but only on one side. Don't remove the original clip until you have this second clip on. This will hold all the papers inline with the holes you already made. This is also important to do, because it makes it easier to stitch it into the cover.

10. Start stitching by lining up the first three holes of the cover with the three holes of your first booklet. (Bear in mind that I had already stitched in 4 booklets before I ggood pictures of the stitching process. The pictures you see are of the last booklet being stitched in.)

-Cut a long peice of thread, about 1.5 feet and thread your needle. Don't make any knots.-Put needle through the middle hole on the outside of the cover and through to the inside of the booklet.

11. Leave a little tail of thread, about 4"-6" long hanging out the spine. This is very important so don't make it too short.


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step 5:Stitching cont...12. Now push needle through bottom hole in booklet and out through the spine.

13. Then push your needle through the top hole of the spine and back into the inside of the booklet.

14. Now push the needle back through the middle and out the spine.

15. Lastly, remove the needle from the thread and tie the two ends together in a double knot and cut the threads to a shorter length.


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step 6:Finishing Touches16.Now that all your stitching is done, you can either leave the notebook as it is or add some modifications.

17.For a closure I am adding a button and string. I started by placing the button where I'd like it to be on the notebook and mark the four holes with a pencil.

18. Sew the button on.

19. Put some clear packing tape on the underside to hold the stitches in place and protect them from unraveling and loosening the button.


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step 7:Finishing Touches pt.220. On the back cover tape a long peice of yarn at the same place as the button on the front cover.

21. Add a fun bead at the end and wrap it around the button so it holds your notebook closed.

step 8:Finishing Touches pt. 322. I always need a place to keep my favorite pens, so I made l ittle pen holders with clear packing tape.

23. I also did some drawings on different colored paper and glued them on the cover for more decoration.

This tutorial has reached an end. I hope that you find it useful and decide to make a notebook of your own. If you do, I'd love to see the photos and hear about yourprocess and modifications.

xo Silvia


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Sherri5762 says: May 22, 2007. 4:33 PM REPGood job! I got it in my head I wanted to make books the other day and I have checked out books from the library, and scanned the internet and was stillconfused. This looks so easy the way you explain it!! Thank you. I can't wait to start .

gforcerocks says: Nov 25, 2006. 11:00 PM REPme like it

me want one

me make one

lazza says: May 17, 2007. 6:05 AM REPGood thinking and a good idea.

SirGrok says: Aug 2, 2006. 3:29 PM REPCould you do this with a manilla folder? That would be a very cheap way to do this bulk. That plus a visit to your local office to grab some paper, and then avisit to your fishing tacklebox for some cord. I prefer wri ting on nonlined paper, especially seeing as I am an Engineering major... Calculus doesn't fit withinthe lines.

And Polymath, I think that the motivation behind this project wasn't money saving, but instead a drive to have what he wanted.

stuboo says: Aug 2, 2006. 9:21 PM REPI created a little web app that generates Cornell-Style note pages. http://eleven21.com/notetaker

As it turns out, another engineering student (named Ted) asked me to make the app generate horizonal lines on the front and vertical lines on the back

so that when you need graph paper, you can actually see it through the paper. It 's and old school technique but it's rad. I f you want to try it out, just clic"Do it up Ted Style"

As the application is written, it wouldn't work well with the folding that you're doing in this instructable - but it's nothing a bit of creative photocopyingcouldnt take care of rather quickly.

Nice work.

ionix says: May 10, 2007. 3:12 PM REPawesome... will come in handy...thanks

chebang says: Aug 2, 2006. 10:08 PM REPI love those pages. I already printed them out. thanks so much.

chebang says: Aug 2, 2006. 5:55 PM REPall your modifications of would work great, except for the fishing line. It's too sharp and would cut your paper and binding holes. (I added this fact and thmanilla folder option to the tutorial.) Also, it would be really hard to sew the booklets in tight, so they would be very loose in the notebook. Any cottonthread works great.

mikesty says: Aug 2, 2006. 3:39 PM REPManilla folder + good stapling will accomplish this.

chebang says: Aug 2, 2006. 5:42 PM REPYes, this is true, but then it would not be the type of bookbinding I give the tutorial for. It would also not be the type of aesthetic I wanted for thisparticular notebook.

PackRat4448 says: Mar 20, 2007. 10:20 PM REPcan i use lined paper with holes?

Y / N

AuntBee says: Mar 10, 2007. 10:20 AM REPThis is cool. My son is an artist so I'll try to make him one (or more) using handmade papers, etc. I am an avid scrapbooker and card maker, so I wil l usesome of the embellishments I have on hand for those hobbies to fancy up a book for myself. COOL! Thx 4 sharing.
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red thread says: Mar 7, 2007. 6:25 PM REPthis is super easy and fun....thanks! i will definitely be using the technique and modifying much!oh yeah, and is there a good method for accomplishing this with 8 1/2 by 11 paper without simply making the whole thing smaller? i wanted a notebook witsheets of graph paper but only had standard notebook sized available....any suggestions? (and i realize i could just staple it or tie it or something, but i amasking for any suggestions using this particular technique)...thanks!

meibao says: Jan 25, 2007. 12:18 AM REPI did something similar but I used staples instead of sewing them, made my own diary.

peterrus says: Jan 1, 2007. 7:59 AM REPGonna make one right away!

peterrus says: Jan 1, 2007. 1:45 PM REPAnd this is what it became.

FR35H says: Sep 23, 2006. 10:18 PM REPPretty neato (lol)

seriously I'm def going to make one of these

great idea keep em' coming!

marissa says: Sep 9, 2006. 9:35 PM REPwhich wayy do you fold the paper?

chebang says: Sep 19, 2006. 4:51 PM REPi'm not sure what you mean. it doesn't matter, as long as it fits nicely in the cover

cl0ney says: Aug 9, 2006. 8:27 PM REPThanks for the post... Very cool indeed. I thought you might be interested to know that what you call a "booklet" is technically called a "signature." It's the litfolded sections of paper inside of a thread-bound book.

Coleman! says: Aug 3, 2006. 12:29 AM REPis the reason your folios are so far apart because the cardboard can't stand for them to be closer?because i think a few strips of gaffer's tape on the inside(or outside..decorative!) could fix that right up.

chebang says: Aug 3, 2006. 11:47 AM REP

Excellent suggestion. I'll do that next t ime. I didn't even think about this.

polymath says: Aug 2, 2006. 1:14 PM REPHow much did the copy paper cost or did you liberate it? I like the idea of having your own personalized note book but I don't see any cost savings when yoadd up time and material.

chebang says: Aug 2, 2006. 5:46 PM REPi understand. edited. i already had all these things on hand. i f igured most people reading this would have comparable materials at home, so theywouldn't have to go out and by anything.
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TheCheese9921 says: Aug 2, 2006. 11:16 AM REPthis is very sweet I think I'll make one out of cerial boxes also my mom buys the college ruled paper buy the truckload lol so I think I'll use some rings instea

chebang says: Aug 2, 2006. 11:25 AM REPRuled paper always looks old school cool. A cereal box would be perfect. Rings are a great modification.
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