DIY Faux Leather Journal from a Boot | Making a Bound Notebook from an Old Pair of Boots & Parchment
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2018
- We made a DIY journal from up-cycled faux leather. We used old boots my wife was going to get rid of to make the outside binding of the notebook.
The Process:
We started by removing the faux leather from the old boots by cutting the stitches away with a precision hobby knife. Once the material was removed, we moved on to prepping the parchment paper. To give the journal a rustic look, we measured about a half an inch around each edge and tore the sheets. Once all the edges had the torn look, we split the sheets in half to get a smaller final page size. After folding all the sheets into booklets, we made a template and used an awl to poke the pages where we wanted the binding string to go. We then cut the faux leather to size making sure to allow room for overlap as well as a little extra to create the finished look. We took the additional step of finishing the edges by folding them over and using rubber cement to glue it in place. We then made waxed thread by taking some brown/tan cross-stitch tread and running over beeswax several times. The waxed string is a lot easier to work with. We then used the string and a needle to stitch all the pages into the leather cover. We finished the look by taking some of the buckles that were on the boots and stitching them to the journal.
I followed the detailed instruction found here:
• DIY Leather Journal (s...
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- Parchment Paper
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Safety Notes:
Be careful when using a precision knife to cut think material like leather. (or faux leather)
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Super 👍 tolle Idee. Großes Talent
That must have been an amazing feeling to see your boy write in a book you've made, definitely an item for you both to cherish and build together for years to come.
It's awesome! And I loved to see the kid writing on it
This video is pretty awesome. Congrats!
he probably was so happy that Daddy made him a journal!!!
That is a fantastic idea! You have done a wonderful job at creating a one of a kind journal:) Love how you incorporated the buckles into the finished design. Thank you for watching my video, I'm always interested in seeing other people's creations:)
Great work!
So cool! Awesome project!!
Pretty amazing!
You channel makes me so mad! You are such an awesome maker and all of your projects are so inspiring, you make all of these easy amazing looking projects and yet, only have 800 subs? HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE!?!? You deserve way more bro! Keep up the wonderful work!
Cool. Great idea.
Wonderfully crafted and filmed. Editing must have taken a while. I'm so pleased to see the ice pick again.
Very cool!
Wow
Wao oooooooooo
+ for adding cm in parentheses :-D
Did you need to wash the leather before working with it? I know you didn't use the bottom of the shoes but I wonder if there was any smell or dirt in the calf lining.
Its bad luck to put shoes on the table! But, I love your technique.