5 minute make

You will see from tomorrow's post how this all began but yesterday I was spurred to tidy up my crafty room. One of the things that this meant was that all of my books and things that tend to get left out for ease actually had a home found for them and were even put away.

One of the main things that we use almost everyday is what we call "the book". It's what we use to record our money and to work out what we have to spend each month. As it was tidied away and therefore closed up instead of left out on the desk I decided this afternoon that it needed not only a bookmark to show where we are in it and to stop from having to find the page every time we want to use it but also it could do with a little brightening up.

I had a look through the leftover bits of yarn that I had tidied all into one bag and found some red, gold and green 4ply yarn. These were the only yarns that I had three colours of all in the same thickness but also the 4py I thought would be the best for this bookmark.

I couldn't really remember from when I was a kid, how you would work out how much yarn you would need for this kind of thing, I decided at for a plat it was about 3 times the length that you wanted the finished play to be. This meant that the way that I wanted to do it I would need 6 times the length of the book as I wanted to double e yarn over and loop it through one of the rings of the notebook to secure this in place.

I looped this through the top ring and tied this onto the book, I had also found this little charm so I decided to add this as well. I threaded this onto the yarn and tied it into place at the top of the book.

And then to begin braiding/platting the yarn. It has been year since I have done this kind of thing but I think I can still remember how a basic platt goes

I kept going until this was the right length to reach the bottom of the book with a little tail at the bottom. Just enough to stick out the bottom of the notebook so that you can find you page.

I am not sure that my 3 to 1 logic quite worked out right for this plat but this was quite a good job really. I didn't get the ends even when I had threaded it through the book at the beginning and tied this on.

This has worked out quite nicely and works will as a bookmark to find the correct page of my book.

I know it wasn't hugely planned as the little charm was just found from an old label by pure chance but this has also worked out quite well on the outside of the spine.

A practical and pretty make brightens things up nicely and hopefully means that I can continue to keep the room tidy and put the book aw apt as I won't have e faff of keep finding my page every time I do remember to put it away.

Not bad for a 5 minute make. So simple but really effective.