Last Minute Gifts

R and I don't go to many birthday parties anymore, but we found ourselves agreeing to attend one a few weeks ago. R boycotts shopping for the sake of gift-giving in general but I hate showing up empty-handed. So we always try to compromise and pass along a bottle of wine or I try to make something.

This time around, I was really stuck for something. A couple of hours before the party, I grabbed an empty moleskin notebook and some fabric scraps and pieced out this baby.

The idea comes from the book "Last Minute Patchwork & Quilted Gifts" by Joelle Hoverson.

I love the way this turned out and have ideas for embellishing more notebooks in the future.






...added a fancy pen et voila! Good to go.