I love finding stories of people making their own notebooks, and these look great. Love the colors.
 This week I made about thirty small notebooks from some scrap paper I’ve had hanging around the design lab. The paper is folded in half – lighter sheets for writing on, inside; and heavier colored cardstock on the outside. The fold is then unfolded, and run through the sewing machine. Each book has seven sheets of paper, so fourteen pages including the covers….
Read more at From the sewing machine: notebooks « Andrew B. Watt’s Blog.
I wanted to make my own notebooks, but I don’t have a sewing machine. I tried hand seeing them, but it killed my thumb!
@Anita,
Yes, I tried sewing notebooks by hand, but it was too much trouble. I found the sewing machine much easier to do.
I am in fact using the notebooks for the purposes I intended, which was to collect poetry and art related to the seven days of the week, the seven planets associated with those days, and the seven gods and goddesses associated with those planets. I only write in them on the relevant day. It’s been an interesting exercise, and the results so far have been beautiful.
I used to make those to keep my diary in back in the early 80s. I used 3×5 or 6×4 index cards. I wanted something I could put in my back pocket and take with me to write anywhere. I sewed them with a big darning needle and they had construction paper covers. I got all fancy with them, rubber stamps, foil stars etc. Good way to ruin my eyes writing in those but I have them still.
Lately, I’ve been buying “notebooks” that are basically a bunch of same sized cards with a hole punched through one of the corners or on the center edge and kept together with a metal ring that you can unfasten. Then you can remove or add cards, change them around. I am really enjoying them for certain kinds of note keeping. Seems as if they’d be easy for any DIU to make. The ones I like best are from Myndology (www.myndology.com)