Notepad Cover

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a dark brown leather notepad cover, with a black mechanical pencil hanging through a pen loop on one side

this project is only partially born out of necessity, but what hobby isn't taken up half-on-a-whim?

at work we can get 12-packs of these little memo pad style notebooks (see below) and i wanted to make a cover for one. the style i went with is similar to a field notes cover, sort-of? but vertical, and without any supplemental pockets. maybe version 2 i'll add something like that.

i actually went patternless with this project, i think? it didn't seem like such a hard thing to put together, so i didn't really both other than making sure that i had straight cuts.

a dark brown leather notepad cover, with a black mechanical pencil hanging through a pen loop on one side

other than trying to size it right and getting it a little too loose, this project was pretty straightforward. the outer leather is a bit softer than the inner, so it has a nice feel to it.

i've got a list of at least a half-dozen improvements i could make to this design, like tighter tolerances, and swapping the pen loops between which is front and which is back. i hope to be able to pick that up and make another of these some time!