Rustic Leather Journal

Here's a leather journal that I made. I've been wanting to play around with something like this forever! I sewed together some scrap pieces of leather with some wax cord. I just kind of fitted them together the best way possible. Then I bound the pages in in sections using the same wax cord. I finished it off by tying it closed with some leather cord. Pics are from the front, back, open and binding. I love how unfinished and rustic it looks. Definitely made my fingers hurt sewing all that wax cord...so pliers were handy and I broke a needle too. Lol.

Here's the front. I love the visible stitches. And it smells nice :)

This is the back...

Here's the journal open. I'm not crazy about how the stitches look in here, that's something I'll do differently next time.

And the spine. I think it turned out pretty great for my first shot :)