Do It Yourself Book Binding Tutorial - Part 1

A simple little origami paper trick started a new interest for me in bookbinding - and eventually this handmade bookbinding tutorial. I found a blog article with a link to a PDF file that, when printed out and folded, created a very useful little 8 page expense tracking booklet that would slip in your pocket. I have found a number of other websites recently that offer various printable templates for customized notebook and day planner pages that can be printed out on your desktop. Now I want to bind a proper notebook with my own templated pages inside. There are several ways to go about making a book. The cheapest and easiest is to saddle-stitch the book. For this method you lay a small stack of pages together with a cover made of card stock, put two staples along the spine to hold it together (there are special ‘saddle stitch staplers‘ for this task), and then fold it in half. Alternately, you can sew the pages together with a heavy thread instead of stapling.