handmade sketchbooks for Jagu and Nicki

I made two sketchbooks in June, one for my friend Nicki and one for my cousin-in-law, Jagu. 

The blue one is for Nicki and has 70lb drawing paper in it.  It has a brass hook-hair elastic closure and batik fabric on the covers.  It's a hard bound book.  Approximately 5 x 9 inches.

The red one I gave to Jagu.  It's also a hard bound but with the stitching exposed on the spine.  I've used a elastic hairband as the closure.  The book's got 90lbs printmaking paper in it (which actually make a nice watercolor paper too, so I use that a lot in my work).  And the covers are made from Marimekko home-dec fabric.  Approximately 6 x 11 inches.