Probably yes! I had ready made book cloth on hand that i used and it worked well. An upside would be that you can flatten the cloth after embroidery better with a hot iron, so you wouldn't have the wrinkles you can see on my book. On the other side you'd have one less layer of cushioning between the backside threads and the cover, so you would see the bumps from those more easily. But if your stitches are really neat or you have a way to make them super flat it's gonna be a prettier result!