Bind your own book and make a tie-dye cover for it!

Steps

• Step 1
  Cut muslin into 15 x 10-1/2" swatches. Wash the starch and sizing out of the cloth. Fold into desired tie-dye pattern and bind with rubber bands.
• Step 2
  Mix dye with water in squeeze bottles according to the package directions. Tie-dye muslin with desired colors. Rinse and dry.
• Step 3
  Create 24 folios by folding 24 sheets of 9x12" paper in half long way. Crease each with the bone folder.
• Step 4
  Stack four folios, one inside another, to make six separate signatures.
• Step 5
  Using the awl, punch four holes through each signature. With paper, make a master template to line up holes evenly.
• Step 6
  Sew the six signatures together using a single strand of binder's thread, approximately 1-1/2 ft. Sewing upward on the first signature then downward on the next, knot the two together at the end. Continue with two signatures at a time, knotting each to the next, until complete.
• Step 7
  Trim thread to 4". Using PVA adhesive, apply a heavy layer of glue to the spine. Lay thread in glue.
• Step 8
  Iron your tie-dyed fabric.
• Step 9
  Cut two pieces of binder's board, 6-1/2 x 9-1/2" each. Cut a 5/8 x 9-1/2" strip out of sulphite paper. Lay out and glue board and strip to the fabric. Wrap excess fabric around board and attach with glue.
• Step 10
  Attach book block by gluing the first and last pages to the inside cover. Finish by creasing outside of the spine with bone folder.

Products Used

• Lineco Binder's Board
• Lineco Binder's Needles
• Lineco Binder's Thread
• Lineco Bone Folder
• Lineco PVA Polyvinyl Adhesive
• Muslin
• St. Louis Crafts Punching Awl
• Tulip One-Step Tie-Dye Kit