For nearly 50 years, I have been making things mostly with a needle and thread and now with paper for scrapbooking and junk journals. I am a firm believer in keeping memories alive so in my sewing,quilting and paper creations, I always want to make them with a memory or a reason. I create, with hopes of sharing cherished memories of the past or creating treasured memories for the future.
I just finished this page...it started as a playground page, and then I put a tree house on it and it turned into a treehouse page! The page is 11x11 inches and has fusible medium weight interfacing on the back of the fabric. All is felt except the tree which is a "wood grain" novelty cotton print. I used snaps, but am not that happy with them but that could be my fault....I will keep working with them and see how they go. Otherwise, I sew velcro on the backs.
A "jungly gym" climbing bars, a rope ladder, a teeter-totter and a tire swing are the activities and the hidden spots are behind the tree leaves and a "door" in the tree trunk. The front of the tree house pulls forward to "get into" the house and snaps to hold the images. The tire swing is on a little bit of embroidery floss so it can be pulled up and down when ready to swing!
Here is a You Tube video of it...take a look, leave a comment, subscribe to my channel and then have fun creating your own quiet book pages!
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Many have asked me how I make, what I call, 3-D Images for my Quiet Books. I love making these as they are so nice for using with velcro for them to stick to the page or just to have them playable on the page! So I did a video about how I do them with double sided fusible interfacing! It is a great way to create playable features for any quiet book. Take a look!
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Dinosaur Digs is the opposite page to Dinosaur World that I
did previously. Kind of like a "before and after" theme? Firs the
dinosaurs are roaming the world, next, they are fossils at a Dinosaur
Dig! What toddler wouldn't love to dig for dinosaur bones! Plus.. on
this page, not only does the child get to find the dinosaurs...they get
to actually (well, almost actually!) dig up some bones! Took me a while
to figure how to make a page that was able to "dig" on, but I think
what I have designed will make my little grand son happy for some time! I used all fabric... browns that looked like rock! The background is a sparkle looking print..perfect for a dinosaur dig! I made the rocks go around the edges of the page, and made them into pockets so a dinosaur could "hide" under or behind the rocks to be found!
There are even some bones left in the side
of the mountain...he can see, but can't dig for, but he can imagine! I
thought they were just a nice little accent for the page and its theme.
The "middle" rock that is to be "dug" around.. is made out of "sloppy" cut triangles, (meaning no exact straight sides, but curvy and ....sloppy!) Then I placed some side by side around in a circle, and then some on top of those, so he digs through first row of "rock" then another "row" of rock till he
finds..... Dinosaur bones!!!
These "bones" I found online as a coloring book page and I
printed them out on fabric paper, then a tad of batting and a white back
and some satin stitch and made them into 3-D, movable, playable
appliques! Now, he can "build" a dinosaur out of the "fossils" he dug up!
The "rocks" around the edges of the page are made of fabric where i just sewed it in a curvy circle or rectangles and then sewed them to the page to form pockets...so other dinosaurs can hide and be found!
These dinos are a fabric I bought, and just cut out the image and made into a 3-D, removable, playable applique piece.
If you would like to see the page in action, click on the picture below!
This is how the 2 pages will be in the book... can't get them side by side here on the post, but... you get the picture!
I
have not sewed the pages together yet....that will be the last thing I
do as I will be binding them as you would a quilt and also making fabric
spine, holding all pages together. So...follow along and stay tuned! And I hope you are
getting the "quiet book bug" and start one for your own little one!
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What little guy isn't going to want to go on a dinosaur dig or play with dinosaurs!!! This double page is just that.The left page wasn't so hard to organize. I made it a kind of scenery of dinosaurs as seen in movies etc. The page is 11x11 and I have not sewed them together yet. That will be the last thing I do. I used fabric and felt on this page.
I had some fabric of these little dinosaurs on it, so I layered some thin batting and some white back and appliqued around each dino, added a snap to the back and it worked out great! I was planning on making animals out of felt, but this way is so much easier!!
This is the page with the dinosaurs "out and about". Leaves and vegetation are felt and the "water hole" is fabric that is appliqued onto the page. I chose larger snaps to be easier for the little fingers to learn to work with! Another fun thing about these kinds of animals... they can be taken/used on any page in the book!
I made the rock just by sewing two pieces of rock looking fabric together, then turn it inside out and then sewed it to the side and bottom of the page. Makes a really nice rock to keep the dinos in when not playing... hide them behind the rock while playing! The tree branches pull back to reveal a dinosaur hiding behind the leaves!
If you want to see my page "in motion"...here is the You Tube video of it from my You Tube channel Quiet Books and Quiet Book Pages.
Enjoy!
I have the next page that goes along with this one ready to post, so follow along and you'll see it. It is called "Dinosaur Dig".. and my little grand son will be digging for dinosaur bones/fossils!! And.. he will even be able to construct a dinosaur from bones he finds!!! Stay tuned!!!
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It is finally done! Took a few weeks, most of that spent creating the pages in my head and coming up with fun ideas and things, but....it was all worth it! I know my little grand son will love this quiet book and have a great time playing with it!
It is 11x11 and cotton fabric and felt. Mostly machine sewing, but some gluing too. I learned how to make little pop up places using the button hole attachment on my sewing machine, got to be all but an expert in making 3-D images, a cool way to use netting and a few other features to make the fun last a long time!
Had a hard time figuring out how to make the cover... I wanted a handle on it, but then the pages would fall forward and look all messed up...so I gave up on a handle, and just made a fabric spine for it.. and a button closure to keep it all together.'
So... take a look at the video and see what you think! This is a You Tube video of the flip through of the whole book. Let me know if you see a favorite page you'd like to create!
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