Kentucky Junior - Fabric Book Cover

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4-H Apparel and Textiles—Sewing
18 U. S. C. 707
4JD-01PB
University of Kentucky - Cooperative Extension Service - College of Agriculture
Fabric Book Cover
Ages 9 to 13
Materials Required:
• Your favorite paperback book
•  yard (approx.) firmly woven,
medium-weight fabric—amount
depends on size of book
•  yard fusible interfacing
• Thread to match fabric
Equipment Required:
• Sewing machine
• Measuring tape
• Dressmaker’s shears
• Dressmaker’s pins and pin cushion
• Pencil and paper to make pattern
• Iron and pressing surface
Cutting Instructions:
1. Measure your book to determine size.
Top to boom ___ + 1¼ inches = ___ [A]
Side to side ___ x 2 + spine ___ = ___ [B]
[B] ___ + 6 inches = ___ [C]
This is a simple project to practice pinning, measuring, cut-
ting, pressing, sewing straight, applying interfacing, and
following pattern direction.
2. Cut one piece of fabric for the book
jacket (inside width [A] by length [B]).
3. Cut one piece of fabric for jacket outside
(the width [A] by the length [C]).
4. Cut one piece of interfacing the same
size as the jacket outside.
Sewing Instructions:
1. Fuse interfacing to the wrong side of the
jacket outside piece.
2. On short sides of jacket outside, turn
under  inch to the wrong side of the
fabric. Press. Sew ¼ inch from the folded
edge (Figure A).
Figure A
Practice Project—Junior Unit II
Let’s Get to the Bottom