 Hey guys, how are you? All right, so I want to make a Custom insert for one of my Shannon green custom keepers today, and I also want to customize the inside of the cover Shannon sells occasionally scraps bags of scraps on her website I'm gonna link it in the description below along with the custom keepers now. This is the one with a tool insert I had her do for my daily drawings, which I love But one thing I discovered about this is there's plenty of room for all my pens and tools in here But when I'm using it if I have the notebook in here in the elastic It's it's lumpy to draw on so what I was thinking is what if I had Along with the toolkeeper insert a pocket insert. I could stick my sketchbook in there when I'm working on it I could take the sketchbook out. I've got all my pens here when I'm done I can put it back in the whole thing gets wrapped up nice and tight and neat stick it in my handbag. I love that idea, so Hopefully it works If you're seeing this video, then it did work So I took some of my scraps that I had and I didn't quite have any that were big enough For what I wanted so I'm gonna have to piece the base of it and the base of it are out of some scraps of fused vinyl and I cut two sides that should just Like squeak a sketchbook in and then a piece for the middle because this by itself was a little bit too tight Then I took Unfused vinyl and I cut some pieces that are going to be turned into pockets. Yeah, and so let's put this together I have my sewing machine set up with a denim needle on it. You don't want to go too fast Just use straight stitches Don't have your stitch length be too small or your tension be too tight Yeah, because this is gonna be really thick and your standard home sewing machine may have a little trouble with this So the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take this piece here and this piece here And I'm gonna sew them together with a straight stitch all the way down right here I'm gonna go Backwards and forwards at the beginning of the end to lock the stitches in and that wasn't the straightest seam I've ever done This FYI Okay See how that worked. Yep So there we go. So now we have one Yeah Looks good All right So now I'm gonna attach the other one and I think just to keep it as flat as possible on this one I have this part on top of the centerpiece and on this one. I'm gonna have it underneath just to keep it as Trim and flat as possible trim some of these little hairy things off the edge here So again, we're gonna overlap them. I don't know I'm overlapping. I'm about an eighth of an inch and then Sewing right down the middle you can hear how it sounds like the machine's going thud thud thud thud thud thud thud It's because it was really thick. So don't go too fast Your denim needles are nice and thick and sharp and they're made through going through thicker materials So make sure that's the kind of needle that you use Now we're gonna see if I guesstimated correctly. Oops See I do it that way if the book will fit Because that's the trick. I think so. So I'm gonna take this is the piece that we made Oops, where are we? There we are. So here's our piece our base, right? So I'm gonna take this is gonna be one set of pockets And I'm gonna sew all the way down the short side across the bottom and up the other short side And then I'm gonna trim it and I'm probably gonna do the sewing from the back side So I can see these short ends here And then I'm gonna trim it and then I'm gonna sew straight up this middle from this point down to the bottom So to make sure I get the point I'm gonna fold this in half along that point and I'm gonna I'm gonna just finger-press it Basically press a fold into it. I'm going to So when you're working with vinyl products, you can't really trim them and I have little small Clips around here somewhere, but these are on my desk and they're easier so I'm gonna use some of these bulldog clips office supplies or clips to just Position the vinyl and then hold it in place while I'm doing my sewing and I'm gonna keep it I don't know an eighth of an inch or so away from the edge Trim your threads close This is not one of those projects where you want lots of loose sloppy thread and then trim off the excess pocket material So now we have that So before somebody asks this base piece is about 11 inches long by Seven and an eighth inches high and the pocket is the same length as the base but it is one in three-quarters inches high in the short end and three inches high in the middle and This is made to fit the Custom keeper that fits my five by seven inch notebooks I don't know the filming of this what size exactly that is But if I can find out from Shannon, I will let you know and I'll put some measurements in the description for you Okay So now I'm gonna fold down that fold sew down that fold line that I creased in the middle and Because I don't want a insert with just pockets on one side and what pockets on two sides We're gonna do the same thing to the other side Again, we're gonna hold this in place with some clips You could tape it in you could if you have a masking tape We're basically just gonna follow the stitching line from the first one that we did Now you have four layers of vinyl here So as you sew this on you want to go slowly because the thicker you get the harder It's gonna be for your machine and you hear how it's really clunking now. Oh And I ran out of bobbin thread. Of course I did. Oh, no, I didn't I just missed a spot. Okay. Well That's what happens it missed a spot Let's try that again, so shall we I could cut the mistakes out of the video, but I'm not going to So when you get this extra other piece of vinyl on here It's really easy for the machine to start skipping stitches because it's really not happy So I'm gonna go over this one corner here a little bit where it looks like I missed a stitch little threads off if you can trim your edges and Then we need to sew up the center like we did on the first side rest of the threads and we should have something That will fit my notebooks and I could fit four notebooks in here I really only use one that's this big size So these other pockets are plenty big enough for actually the smaller ones that I draw with Which is great Yeah, this is gonna be good. It's gonna have to be broken in a little bit because it's like really stiff Like leather it's gonna have to be broken into I also want to put Pockets into The inside cover so what if I instead of doing all that I want to just tuck this big one Into the cover and then have small ones into the other pockets So I cut some more pieces of the unfused vinyl and cut them to a size That will fit along this short end of the cover So we're gonna stitch those in This first one I kind of tried to trim it and then I thought better of that So I would not like try to round off the corners I would leave it leave it untrimmed and then just trim it to match After you get it sewn in I Would also clip this I forgot to clip it in I would use the clips to hold this to the front cover Oops from the threads. I would also if you're gonna do this and put pockets on your cover Do it before you decorate the cover if you're gonna like paint the cover or something put the pockets in first It's not good for your sewing machine to be sewing through Paint and stuff. It's bad enough. We're sewing through the vinyl. So I'm gonna do the same thing This one's untrimmed. I'm gonna just sew it in and then trim the corners after Where's our clips? The first one's a little bit crooked. I can live with it, but let's try to get the other one straight a trim the threads Trim the corners a little piece hanging off over here so now you have pockets inside the cover and If I wanted to use the insert for smaller notebooks I could do that and I could just put my big one in the cover in the front or back cover And that's gonna work like a charm. So I'm going to get this Reloaded and strung I have to put the string back. So I'm gonna do all that and I'll be right back. Okay, that will work really well. I Love that and I may just load it up. These are actually from my Delfonics bag the pens and stuff I put in here. They're from here, which I keep Out in the front room and I love that bag. I May just fill this up with some spares so that I have it ready I kind of just shove my sketchbooks in there and then take it with me like when I go on a trip This I love it. I'm gonna include Shannon's Etsy shop in the description and any relevant measurements for you all If I forget somebody remind me If you want to know specifics about what's in here, let me know in the comments and I'll let you know It's in there what my favorite sketching supplies are But that's it for today. I hope it gives you some ideas of maybe what you can do To customize your tools your supplies and your storage to suit your needs. That's it for right now I hope you all Have a great day that you're inspired Don't forget to go out and do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and like share and subscribe Please I appreciate that. That's it for today. Bye