Lately I've been seeing quiet books all over Pinterest and I decided that I really wanted to try making one. Now I'm not amazing at sewing by any means, but I thought I'd give it a go. There were gazillions of different designs I wanted to make, but I decided to start with a simple football. I figured if I could handle this it'd be a bit of a confidence booster :)
I started with making my pattern. It's possible that I went a little crazy and made all of the patterns I needed...for all of the pages...before I even decided to make the book. Anyhow, I made my pattern for the football page and then traced it on newspaper like my best friend (who is actually very good at sewing!) does with all of her patterns. I then pinned the newspaper pattern to the brown and white felt sheets like so:
After pinning the pattern, I cut out the shapes I needed. Definitely not a huge fan of cutting felt. Once all the pieces were cut out, I placed them all together like I wanted them and pinned them down. Pins, pins, and more pins! :)
After everything was where I wanted it, I got out my trusty sewing machine and hooked those buggers down to the green background. Once all the pieces were hooked down I added laces to the football with a large needle. I just threaded a piece of yarn on my needle and weaved it in and out of the white trapezoid pieces in the center. My final (ish) product looks like this:
I'm still considering stitching on some words about tying the laces with embroidery thread. I haven't quite decided if I'm going to or what it will say yet...we'll see. It was definitely a confidence booster that I managed to finish this without stabbing myself in the finger with a pin or sewing anything on backwards :)
The next page is going to be a long-neck dinosaur eating leaves, which will be posted tomorrow!
Happy sewing friends!
-Katie
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