I made a quiet book for my daughter and entered it in Spoonflower’s baby book contest. Click on any image to see it larger.
 Cover (not included in the kit; I used denim and embroidered the words) |
 Barn and tent  Barn: the revised version — V2 — is a bit taller to better hold finger puppets  Tent — V2 is taller to allow for more zipping |
 Braid and woven pie — Now, a real lattice-top pie lets you see some of the filling. Feel free to put fewer (or thinner) crust pieces on yours. In V2 the braid girl has legs. Here she has tiny embroidered feet.  I stitched the hair on with embroidery floss, and then knotted several strands over the stitches.
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 Shoe and tree — for V2 I trimmed down the shoe top to allow for more lacing room and moved the basket a little higher on the page.  Apples in basket — I think I need to pound the snaps down a bit more — they seem a bit bulky. |
Instructions (included in the kit, but may be more easily revised here):
To finish each page:
1) Add your own pocket at lower edge of hay (at beige dots) to hold your own finger puppets (cow, pig, chicken, etc). Add felt barn doors at each side.
2) Add 5 snaps to tree. Use template to add basket at dots. Use template to cut out felt apples; add snaps.
3) Add long yarn “hair” to the head. Add ribbons at top and/or bottom of page to hold small hair clips.
4) Attach vertical and horizontal felt strips to the pie at small guidelines at top (blue) and left (beige). Or use thinner strips for a more realistic look.
5) Fuse shoe top to interfacing. Cut holes at green dots; reinforce. Sew to shoe over tongue. Add shoelace.
6) Add tent with zipper down the center.
General instructions:
Seam allowance is the 1/2-inch shaded area (pink, blue and green); cut to the outside to make 3 double pages.
Complete pages as above. Sew a heavy cover fabric (9” x 12”) to one of the pieces, right sides facing, leaving space to turn. Sew other two completed page spreads together, likewise.
Turn all right side out, and top stitch all the way around. Stitch book together through center of page spreads.
Thanks to the internet, including http://homemadebyjill.blogspot.com and http://quietbook.blogspot.com/
Thanks for checking it out! View fabric at Spoonflower.