diy felt book cover

You might be able to find a handful of sewing projects on my blog. However, I am not a seamstress, by any stretch of the imagination. If you’re at my sewing skill level, don’t click away from this project! If you can sew a straight line, then you can whip up a felt book cover in no time.

how to make an easy felt book cover

I was going through some storage boxes the other day looking for something when I came across some of my old scriptures. It was pretty perfect timing because my son is at the cute age where his Sunday School teachers are encouraging them to bring scriptures with them to class.

Of course, my name is printed on the outside of my old scriptures. So, I wanted to think of a way to cover that up. I also figured it was a good idea to protect the scriptures from his little hooligan ways, and at the same time help him feel like they were his own.

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This felt book cover was the perfect solution, and since I still have a bunch of leftover felt from this project I didn’t even have to purchase any materials!

If you’ve ever worked with felt, you know that it’s such an easy fabric to work with! Who doesn’t love a fabric you don’t have to worry about frayed edges? I knew it that this would be the perfect material for a book cover for my little man’s new/old scriptures! Better still, I let him pick out the color of felt and thread he wanted so he would feel even more involved.

steps to make a felt book cover:

Start out by tracing around the open book that you’re planning to cover on paper. You’ll want about a ¼” border around each side. Cut the paper out to use as a template and trace around the template onto the felt. This will be the front or outside of the book cover.

Then, fold the paper template in thirds and use that to trace two smaller rectangles onto the felt as well. These will be the inside flaps that the cover of the book slides into. Once your three pieces are cut out, lay them out like a traditional book jacket (as pictured) and stitch a straight seam along all four sides leaving a ¼” border.

I was in a hurry as I was sewing this up so it’s far from perfect, but as I said, felt is a very forgiving fabric. The most important thing is that little man loves it. This is a great way to cover up any book inexpensively and lasts much longer than the old, brown paper bag method.

Plus, it’s a lot more fun and colorful! If you wanted to get really fancy you could stitch a little ribbon bookmark to the top center of the inside to, but since the set of scriptures already has one I didn’t bother this time.