I made a pair of my own to donate, along with some bookstore gift certificates, to a silent auction at one of my local schools. The school crest is wine with gold, so I tried to mimic that with materials left over from other projects and made use of a tool I'd bought for cutting fabric circles (which was not, frankly, all that - I'll try it with some other fabrics and see if it works any better.)
Not to be hampered by my complete lack of fancy embroidery skills, I made do with running stitch. Similarly, I substituted a blanket stitch border for pretty scalloped one that Heather did.
Then of course I had to figure out how to label them, because I wasn't presenting them with an actual book (sorry, nobody's getting my Judy Boltons anytime soon). In the end I decided on explanatory tags:
In case you make some too and are in the same boat, mine read rather encouragingly "hand embroidered elastic bookmark - hug the band around the cover to the page you're marking, and rest your book in style!"
They were quick to make - I knocked them off in an evening and about half an hour of the next morning, part of the time having been spent deciding on designs . And I managed to secure the elastic in place with any stitches that ran past it. You can see on the one above that a whole row of stitches runs along the centre of the elastic. The one below got caught with every spiral.
I'd do this again I think... but I think they'd be so much cuter with colour elastics. White is nice in a waistband, but bright orange or red would be pretty fantastic on a book, don't you think?
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