Zum Gali Gali Rubber Stamps presents Five-stitch Bookbinding - Stitching

Cut a length of thread at least four times the height of your book and thread a needle singly with it (that is, do not double the thread).

Start by stitching up through the middle hole. Leave a couple of inches of thread at the back of the book to tie a knot with later.

Stitch down through the next hole towards the top of the book and then around the spine and back down through the same hole.

Stitch up through the hole nearest the top of the book and then around the spine and back up through the same hole.

Stitch around the top of the book and back up through the same hole.

Stitch down through the next hole towards the center.

Here's the only tricky part: Skip the center hole and stitch up through the second hole from the bottom, then around the spine and back up through that same hole. As you go past the middle hole, keep the loose end (coming through the middle hole) towards the open side of the book.

By now you have the idea: down through the hole closest to the bottom, around the spine and back down, around the bottom and back down, up through the hole closer to the center, down through the middle hole, and finally around the spine and back down through the middle hole. As you go through the middle hole this last time, keep the needle on the spine side of the thread that skipped the middle hole.

Tie the ends together over the thread that skipped the middle hole, and trim the knot. That's it!