School Notebook Closure

by Elena Fredrick

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Never search for a pen again. Make these colorful elastic closures for your notebooks. Add a pen loop and a charm and you're set. All you need: colorful 1" elastic, fabric scrap, matching thread and a charm.

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Begin by wrapping elastic around notebook cover only. Make sure it's snug fitting. Cut.

- Wrap fabric around your elastic, add 1/2" and cut.

-Sew creating a tube. You may sew one short end closed for ease of turning inside out. Then cut off closed end. Iron with the seam in the middle. Then cut to 3 1/2" pieces.

-Turn one end in 1/2". Insert other end in to opposite end making sure it fits around elastic. Hand stitch closed.

-Tack on a charm if you wish, slip elastic on to notebook, store a pen in the fabric loop and you're done. Cool right!

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Jeffrey Thomas on Jan 23, 2017
good idea - great minds think alike - I use a composition notebook each year and call it 'my everything' - I even glue a calendar into the back - this would be a great help to keep a pen always handy

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- Elena Fredrick on Jan 23, 2017
  Neat idea to attach a calendar.
  
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Nikissilly on Jan 23, 2017
I love this idea so clever

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