I've just made this this morning - I know it's very simple, but I'm happy with it. I bought a cheap (very cheap! £1!) photo album to keep photos of Rebecca, my new granddaughter, in; the red plastic cover wasn't very inspiring so I decided to make an embroidered book jacket and this is the result.

It looks great. Very good idea. Judy

Very nice, and I really like the design. Thanks for sharing with us. Flowers for you and everyone.

Dianne, it is so nice to be a grandma and all the hugs that go with it.....love this...enjoy...Sally

Very pretty!

it's sweet.

Well Grandmother it is lovely!!!

Grandma has to have a brag book You did a great job

Very nice. Simple design but very pretty. Great job.

Very nice idea, looks great!

It is very pretty! Much nicer than the covers on those books! Go ahead and brag!

Oh how lovely. A perfect "brag book" cover!

That just is pretty!!!! Yearnings of you Dianne! You walk vanished...

very cute jacket and a great way to show off Bebecca :)
hugs Lee

lovely idea..a real treasure now...*

Very pretty, I'm sure you will soon fill it with photographs.
This idea would adapt nicely to a covered knitting file cover using an ordinary A4 file, or a diary cover.
Happy embroidering
Margaret

it's a great idea for a gift and moves imagination for a series

Exellent use the the floral monogram. What a great way to show off you granddaughter.

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by shirlener88 08 May 2008

Yes!

It looks great. A lovely idea. Please open the book and take a photo of the inner of the cover. I would very much like to see how you fastend it, it looks so nice and smooth. (Everybody please forgive me, when I use funny words.)

Great idea grandma! We DO love to brag! ;)

Dianne you've done a really good job of this, and what a lovely way to brag about your beautiful granddaughter, a flower for you.

How beautiful it is. I see it is mostly at the top, there is room for her birth details below it, since it is about her lifes journey. What better place to start, but from the beginning. It is only an idea, I love it.

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by dianned 20 Feb 2008

I'm afraid I won't be adding any more embroidery to it, if you'd seen my efforts at book-binding you'd know why! It's not a loose cover, I've actually re-bound the book and also added a removable plastic cover too, to keep it clean. (I took the cover off for the photo as it was reflecting light.)

by mops 20 Feb 2008

Clever you. In bookbinding I always use an iron-on stabiliser (the dressmaking variety) at the back. Makes the material better to handle.

by dianned 21 Feb 2008

I didn't think of that, I just pulled it very tight and stuck it with double-sided tape on the inside of the book covers then stuck a piece of paper over it to cover and seal the edges. I remembered how to do a book cover from my schooldays (way-back-when!) when we had to cover all our exercise books with wallpaper at the beginning of every term!

Nice, dianned, I like the monogram. I have made a couple with the text 'grandma's pride' for friends of mine who became a grandmother. They love them.