Thursday, September 2, 2010

My Quiet Book

So about 6 months ago I was inspired by this cute Quiet Book with a tutorial, so I decided to give it a shot. There were lots of ideas on line and a friend had made a few so she sent me her ideas and even some sketches (Thanks MR)! I bought felt, ribbon, beads, and cut out all these shapes . . . then the project sat there for a long while and then last week I decided I should just finish! And I did. I'm quit happy with how things turned out, even though I'm not a perfectionist when it comes to sewing and I can see room for improvement.







We took it to church on Sunday and Briella enjoyed it, mostly the buttons and the beads . . . they are looking 'loved' already.
I have a couple of other projects in the works, plus some patching for Stephan . . . I might need a better sewing machine if this keeps up :)

2 comments:

Pam said...

Just stalking your blog... so did your book hold up? Any suggestions from doing this one or things you would change?

Pam

Emily said...

I should have reinforced the snaps a little better on the
shape page because I've had to redo some of them. I would not use felt for the shirt with buttons (felt stretched a lot) . . . but the pages themselves are still in very good shape. The weaving one at the end looked like fun but not a great one for the kids to play with, they just don't get it and there are other cool ideas that I would choose another.