Cooler weather and needing to make something

Today is blessedly cooler. Out grocery shopping, then home and reading a Bess Crawford and sleeping to catch up with last night's broken sleep and general upset.

And making has resumed. Partly the weather, partly needing to stitch away the upset about poor little Bennie.

Anyway thanks to various suggestions in here about the granny squares, particularly Mary Anne's pocket idea, partly because I'm out of little note books for lists and backup for appointments, since paper don't crash, I thought aha! Why not make four squares into a little book cover for a notebook with refillable pages? Two pockets joined up, card stock inserted to stiffen. Well, self replied, why not?

There followed a brisk search for cardstock, check, paper, check, paper-cutter, check, needle, check, embroidery floss, check.

And I had a very enjoyable time stitching and cutting, happily using my propelling pencil for the measuring marks, fine lead.

Here's the upshot

The cardstock is a stiffening to slide into the pockets.

Squares back to back, wrong sides together

Here's how it fits together

And because I need to remove pages, and refill  them, I didn't stitch the pages, but tied them this way

And here's my new notebook

Front cover

Inside left

Inside right

Back cover

Better all around.