Jazzy journal covers

It's like this.  My journals get far more use if they are fun to be around.  So I set about figuring out how to make one and here's what I came up with:

The exterior is made from a gorgeous preloved top and the green silk interior is an offcut of fabric discovered at a car boot sale.  The lady was selling off her daughter's fabric collection now that she'd left university and is a fashion designer in her own right. 

Oh I just love knowing the story behind the fabric!

Now on to make it the right size for the journal it's designed for LOL!

Leftover silk scarf

This was made from the silk found in the bag of leftovers from the car boot sale.

I just had to add a mini-hem down both sides and ta-da - one silk scarf!

Car boot sale finds

You'd think you'd find something good at a car boot sale with over 300 cars right?

Well, I did find a couple of magazines with patterns in and a piece of wonderful fabric (William Morris print which I've already used for a skirt and bag - I put that back LOL!)

Feeling jaded, the very last car boot that I peered into came up trumps.  It contained a couple of large bags of material with a £1 sign on them.  Interested, I raked through the off-cuts to see what was on offer.  The seller saw my interest and told me that her daughter had studied fashion design at university and was now a designer with Toast (I must look them up!)  The material was all her project work leftovers.

I picked up some lime silk (enough to make a couple of scarves), lengths of black ribbon (always comes in handy), navy wool coating, thick black stretchy material (skirt maybe?) and heaps of other wonderful goodies.  I had an absolute armful!

And she charged me just £2 for the lot.

She made my day!