Pocket Accordion Bond Book

Hopefully everyone is surviving the long winter.

Here are the instructions for the second book we created at our last meeting - the "Pocket Accordion Bond Book".

*Just a quick note - I have changed the sizes to fit the book I was doing.  These will be different from the ones on the instructions Nancy handed out.


Supplies:

For Outside cover - one 2 3/8" x 11 1/2" paper sheet
                                There will be an accordion fold in this sheet, so 
                                choose paper that's not heavy and can fold and 
                                hold easily.


For Inside Pages - six 3" x 5 1/2" sheets of paper.  Once again, not 
                              too heavy.

You will also need -
                                Ruler
                                Bone folder
                                Pencil
                                Glue


Start by gathering materials -

Fold the 6 inside pages first.  

Starting with the paper in a horizontal position,Measure 1" up from the bottom of the page and score a line across the whole sheet.  

Then fold the bottom edge up.

Keeping the bottom edge fold, fold each sheet in half vertical, so the horizontal fold is to the outside.

You will need to do this with each of the 6 pages.  When you get done, they'll look like this - 

Sorry for the blurry photo.  Hopefully you can somewhat see what they should look like.

Set those pages aside.

Folding the cover - 

With your 2 3/8" x 11 1/2" paper in the horizontal position, starting from the left side of the paper, measure and score a line 3" from the edge.

Then starting at the 3" mark, measure and score 12 lines - 3/8" apart.  This will be for the accordion fold binding.

Take your time measure and scoring.  This binding is not very forgiving and things can get wonky if the measuring and scoring isn't precise.

After the 12th scored line, measure 3 inches and score again.

After score you will want to fold.  Valley…Mountain…Valley….Mountain…etc.  (See diagram below)

You will have some extra at the end.  I'll come back to that.

Next, its time to center (I just eye-balled it) and glue the each side of inside pages (that you folded earlier) to each side of a mountain fold.

Make sure the pocket is facing in the right direction.  Not just that it is on the outside, but also that it is on the bottom and not the top.

You will notice that the inside edge of the pocket is not glued down.  

You can glue it now if you wish or leave it as is.  You could even fold or cut a decorative edge to it.


After the book is completely glued,  you can choose what to do with the left-over edge of the cover.

You can cut it off and align the front and back covers or what I did was to make 2 additional score and folds and create a folded closure for the book.

Thanks again to Nancy for demonstrating!


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