Issue 16 has landed and with it our second Craft Club brief. This month there are oh comely subscriptions and online craft tutorials courtesy of The Amazings to be won, so listen up!

In the issue, Alice Morby showed us how to make a notebook using the traditional art of Japanese stab binding. The technique's beauty is in its infinite variations: from fluro stitching to aged paper, you can make each notebook exactly how you want.

Here's your challenge: make a personalised notebook with a stitched spine.

The prizes: four craft tutorials and four Oh Comely subscriptions.

How to enter: Email [email protected] or tweet #OCcraftclub by July 1st.

Following Alice’s instructions, you’ll produce the traditional tortoise-shell bind that creates a diamond pattern along the notebook spine. Once you've mastered the basics there're plenty more patterns and techniques to experiment with – including four-hold binding shown here by a crafter at Design Sponge.

To top that, for this Craft Club, we've teamed up with the lovely folks at The Amazings, a craft community of wise elders eager to share their mastery and wisdom with budding creatives. We're giving away 4 of their newly-launched online 'How to Make an Altered Book' tutorials, which teach you how to transform a dusty old book into a work of art, just like this one below.

Rather inspiringly, The Amazings’ aim is to keep the traditional skills and practices of yester-year alive by teaching them to the new, young crafters of today. They have a resident Italian glass artist, a Scottish Kiltmaker, a Spanish crocheter, and classes range from learning to play the ukulele to creating retro hair do’s.

Their new online master classes include over 2 hours of entertaining how-to videos, teacher’s notes and handouts, and the opportunity to connect with classmates and ask the teacher questions. It’s rather like going back to school, except you get to swap the textbooks for well, fun stuff! 

Check out The Amazings website for the full range of classes and courses taught by lifelong crafters and makers. You can get your first class free using this link.

For your chance to win a subscription and enrollment on a master class, email your finished notebook to [email protected] by 1st July, or tweet it with the tag #OCcraftclub.

T&Cs: 1. The competition closes on 1 July. 2. One entry per person. 3. There is no cash or other alternative to the prizes stated. 4. Any entries may be published on ohcomely.co.uk and its social media platforms with credit.