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Step 9Add a pen holder (optional and requires planning before you begin)
I say requires planning because you'll need to remeasure the beginning part of the book and make it wider to fit the pen. Hence why I sent you to this step in the beginning. You can't really grasp what needs to be bigger unless you have read this instructable this far.
So the insert will go in the book, and the book will close over the insert. If you have made the cover bigger than the insert like I said in step 2, then the cover will close perfectly over the book. This is nice, but leaves no room for a pen. In order to have the room, you need to make the back cover 1/4 inch wider, or whatever thickness your pen is. And if you don't want your book looking lopsided, then you need to make the front cover wider too. Then you can go about adding a pen holder. Make sense?
Unfortunately, I only have picture from making my prototype which I made the mistake of not making the book wider and cannot fit a pen. *sigh* thats what the first edition of something is for I guess.
So, you've done all the planning and have made the book up to this far, how do you make the pen holder. First things first, material. This could be made from many things you have laying around, the most common material to use? thin cloth, perhaps. I used book cloth, for two reasons, it does not stretch, and is strong. Also it matches the book binding (though mine didn't because I used a different cloth.
Before you paste it in, I cut a piece of book cloth that was twice as wide as I wanted and folded it over on itself, please see pictures to see how I folded it. Then I used paper glue, to seal it shut.
So you will want to paste it on the middle of the binding. I pasted it on with the pen in, so I was sure that it would fit.
And finally, make sure the inside covering goes over the edge of the pen holder
AND THAT IS WHY... if you wanted a pen holder, you had to read this whole instructable, this step and then start the book.
So the insert will go in the book, and the book will close over the insert. If you have made the cover bigger than the insert like I said in step 2, then the cover will close perfectly over the book. This is nice, but leaves no room for a pen. In order to have the room, you need to make the back cover 1/4 inch wider, or whatever thickness your pen is. And if you don't want your book looking lopsided, then you need to make the front cover wider too. Then you can go about adding a pen holder. Make sense?
Unfortunately, I only have picture from making my prototype which I made the mistake of not making the book wider and cannot fit a pen. *sigh* thats what the first edition of something is for I guess.
So, you've done all the planning and have made the book up to this far, how do you make the pen holder. First things first, material. This could be made from many things you have laying around, the most common material to use? thin cloth, perhaps. I used book cloth, for two reasons, it does not stretch, and is strong. Also it matches the book binding (though mine didn't because I used a different cloth.
Before you paste it in, I cut a piece of book cloth that was twice as wide as I wanted and folded it over on itself, please see pictures to see how I folded it. Then I used paper glue, to seal it shut.
So you will want to paste it on the middle of the binding. I pasted it on with the pen in, so I was sure that it would fit.
And finally, make sure the inside covering goes over the edge of the pen holder
AND THAT IS WHY... if you wanted a pen holder, you had to read this whole instructable, this step and then start the book.
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