DIY culinary notebooks

Surely every housewife has her own little secrets and favorite recipes with which she pleases her beloved family. Well, of course, every housewife should have a special notebook for notes for her favorite recipes. So that at any time you can take such a notebook and use it or, conversely, write down the desired recipe. Now, of course, there are a lot of ready-made cookbooks on sale, with hundreds of different recipes, but for many this is considered very cumbersome and inconvenient, since until you find the right recipe, you will spend a lot of time and will not always get the desired result. So, in such cases, it will certainly be very convenient to have a small culinary notebook with a blank block of sheets into which you can paste or write in your favorite recipes. Every housewife can make such an assistant with her own hands, and this interesting master class will help us with this.
So, to make two small notebooks we need to take:

• Binding cardboard 4 pieces measuring 10.5 * 14 cm, this is A6 format, as well as two binding strips 1.5 cm by 14 cm;
  
• White cardboard;
  
• Two ready-made tinted blocks A6 format (you can buy ready-made blocks or sew them yourself), you can also buy a very ordinary notebook and simply remove the cover from it;
  
• Paper for scrapbooking with culinary motifs;
  
• Bronze metal corners, take 8 pieces;
  
• Fabric mint and white check, red and white check and two fabrics with kitchen elements, we will combine fabrics in notebooks;
  
• Sintepon;
  
• The lace is white cotton and red;
  
• Culinary pictures, cards and a set of culinary die-cuts with inscriptions and various kitchen utensils;
  
• Rep ribbons with polka dots for bookmarks;
  
• Kitchen pendants;
  
• Metal brads;
  
• Clips, pencil, ruler, double-sided tape, scissors, glue stick, water-based glue.

We lay out two binding rectangles evenly on the table, and between them a binding strip; now we measure out two narrow strips from cardboard and glue them to both joints of the cover.


Glue and level. We use scissors where the strip bends so that the base is well covered.


We put them together and get these little books. Now we glue the padding polyester onto them with double-sided tape.


Now let's take the fabrics. We combine and cut off the pieces, don’t forget to make extra for the hems. Cut two strips of lace for each notebook.


We iron all the pieces of fabric and sew them together. We sew lace at the joints. Now we wrap the binding blanks with fabric. We smear the edges of the binding base with a glue stick, fold the fabric and glue it. For now we put it aside.


Let's prepare the blocks. For our blocks we need to make colored endpapers from scrap paper. Cut two rectangles and fold each in half to the height and width of the block.We smear the edges near the spine from top to bottom with a glue stick, and glue the endpapers in front and behind the block. Now we cut off strips of white paper, wrap it and glue it in such a way as to glue the top and bottom of the block along with the spine. We clamp the blocks with paper clips and set them aside.


We sew soft covers along the edges.


Now we try on pictures, cards and die-cuts for covers. Sew on all the elements. The blocks with endpapers are also ready.


Now we need to assemble our notebooks, namely, glue the blocks into the covers.


Glue the blocks. Glue the endpapers of the block onto the sides of the cover and you’re done. We clamp with clamps and let it dry. Then we put on the metal corners and the notebooks are ready. Thank you for your attention and good luck to everyone!