What are these? you ask!
Do you remember the notebooks I won the other day? They are made by Ecojot, a Canadian company makes 100% post-consumer recycled paper products. And although the covers are beautifully designed by Carolyn Gavin, I have been searching for just the right notebooks to make covers for! I love making notetakers & notelets:
except for the 2nd to last step, wrestling very thick peltex into the cover – it has to fit just right, and it drives me crazy! SO, I’ve been looking for notebooks to cover with very stiff covers, so I didn’t have to worry about so much stiffness. The other issue with these is they hold tear-off sheet pads,
and I wanted to find nice spiral bound notebooks/sketch pads so the paper can remain in them more permanently. I’m also trying to use recycled paper as much as possible: man do these Ecojots fill all my criteria, Plus, they have plain brown styles of just about their entire line, so I don’t have to feel guilty about covering up Carolyn’s pretty covers! This is one of those ideas I’ve had in the back of my mind for over a year now, and I’m always on the lookout in Office Depot, etc…
Any old who…I’ve abandoned all other projects for the past 2 and a half days, I’ve gone through 7 different versions:
And these are now ready for production! These photos are NOT the best, but I’m too excited to stop and try to take more!
1st up is the largest size (6” x 9”), the Eco-Agenda. It is a perpetual datebook along with 100 pages of lined paper in the back:
Next up is the Eco-Agenda & the Eco-Doodle. Both are 5” x 7” and have 80 sheets of paper, either lined or unlined!
Last, and cutest is the Mini-doodle: 3” x 4”, it has 50 sheets of drawing paper:
As you can see, all the covers hold closed with an elastic, and have pen holders and pockets. To give the covers body, they’re interface with med. weight interfacing and batting, and the lovely stiffness comes from the awesome Ecojot covers!
I’m so excited, these are exactly what I’ve been waiting to make, and make I shall! I’ve ordered 50 from Ecojot, and FedEx willing, they’ll be here before I leave for Idaho in 10, 9, 8 days – yikes! Here’s hoping the folks up in Sandpoint like these, cause I’m making a bunch for my trunk show there!
just in case you haven’t seen enough pictures:
I’ve got work to do!
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WOOHOO! You’re sooo awesome! I also had another person ask me if they can come to your trunk show too! hot damn! Great fun!
Wow, these are beautiful – and creative. You should consider also making covers for Moleskine notebooks, they’re very hot.
http://www.moleskine.com/
Other companies have tried, but yours are much prettier
http://www.google.com/search?q=moleskine+cover&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
Those are awesome!
They are awesome!
Very nice covers. I love the colors & designs. You did an excellent job. Now I want to make some!
SewCalGal
http://www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com
These are AWESOME Candy!!!!!! I need to show Karyssa…… she will totally want one for school in the Fall!!!! I bet all her friends will!!!!!!
These are fabulous Candy, I love the pocket on the inside back cover too, form and function! A great way to showcase your fabrics. I’m sure they’ll be a hit.
I love the pen holder. You’ve really thought it through well.
Beautiful. Your fabrics and designs are perfect and those pads are something I could see using all the time. A winning combination.
These are great! Congrats, what an exciting new product line. I like all the thoughtful touches for the holders. I didn’t notice if you’d already done this, but a special feature could be a little zipper pocket… keeps important things from falling out.