"Children's" cover

The little hare on the cover vigilantly keeps order in the book and in the notebook! To make a “children's” cover, you need only a few shreds and a picture of your kid’s favorite character ...

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You will need:
One cover size A5 (148 x 210 mm).
For patchwork: plain and colored rags of cotton fabric or linen. Tailor's chalk. Roller Knife. Ruler. Suitable threads for sewing.

For application: the remains of felt cream, brown and blue. Embroidery threads are cream, brown, blue, pink and orange. Needle for embroidery.
In addition: Nahtband ironing tape, 30 cm long, 3 cm wide, beige. A piece of chalk. Transparent paper and pencil.
PATCHWORK
Sew from shreds 2 rectangles of the size. OK. 30 x 60 cm (= inside and outside of the cover). Please note that applications look best on a plain background. Always iron the oversize onto a darker fabric.
APPLICATION
On transparent paper, draw an oval size. OK. 5 x 3.5 cm muzzle of a hare with ears and 2 paws. Cut out the parts and check their size and shape by attaching them to the cover. Cut the face of cream felt, paws of brown and 2 mug dia. 2 cm of blue felt.
Paste all the details from felt according to the photo onto the outside of the cover. draw the contours of the muzzle with ears in chalk.
Cut a duck out of felt and outline its outline over 2 wheels.
Sew all details from felt with embroidery threads in 1 addition with langette stitches, a hare and a duck with threads in 2 addition with threading stitches, embroider the rope with brown threads.
Embroider the details on the muzzle of the hare, the beak of the duck is embroidered with orange, the eyes with brown threads.
Fasten the ends of the threads on the wrong side.
Carefully iron the application from the wrong side.
COVER
Patch the Natband ironing tape according to the diagram on the front side of the inside of the cover. Chalk the ruler to draw a rectangle size. 25 x 52 cm. Make sure that on the finished cover the hare is on its front side.
Wrap a pocket for inserting a book or notebook inside to a width of 7 cm. Mow the opposite side (see photo of the model).
Sew both parts along all contours. According to the scheme, leave a hole for turning out in the seam. Trim the allowances close to the seams, cut diagonally at the corners. Turn out the cover, sew a hole in the seam, iron the edges.
Lock the natband with stitches 4 to the width of the machine foot from above and below.
For a pocket, iron the straight edge 7 cm wide on the inside, sew by hand with small stitches.
That's it - you can fold a book or notebook into a finished cover!
Photo: Tim James, from Des Idees Consues Main, by Pip Lincoln, Hachette Pratique, Paris. Text: Marianne Simon.