Painted Faces Binder Cover Completion

Finished Painted Faces Binder Cover

This week as I was looking around my sewing room I saw the unfinished binder cover taunting me as it sat stashed away on the shelf (my version of "out of sight - out of mind") so I grabbed the pattern directions and read through them one more time to figure out how the cover was sewn together.  Although I would have liked it to turn out a little better I am happy overall, especially since this was my first time using this pattern and my first attempt at making a binder cover. The pattern said the inside lining wouldn't show much so it didn't matter what fabric you used so I chose something I really didn't care for.  Unfortunately, when you open the binder it shows just a little more than I would like. I think having a coordinating lining fabric would have given it a better overall appearance. The other thing I didn't take into account was the back of the binder cover. The directions were for quilting an entire piece of fabric for the cover but since I was using my painted face project thinking how good it would look on the front I coordinated a plain piece of green fabric to wrap around to the back and that's the look I got - a plain back cover piece. You notice I made sure that didn't show in the photo. If I were to do this again I would definitely make sure that I had something a little more exciting for the back piece too. Guess I'll just have to make another cover!