Mr. Potato Head Quiet Book Page

     When I was a kid, I loved Mr. Potato Head.  I thought up endless ways to create my own potato person and kept myself entertained for ages.  So I thought, why not make a quiet book version?  I made my patterns and set to work :)

     First step, trace pattern pieces on newspaper.

     Next I cut out the pattern pieces and grabbed lots of felt.

     Then I cut my background piece of felt down to the size I wanted it like I did with my other pages ( Football Page Long-neck Dinosaur Page and the Matching Game Page).

     I pinned down the potato piece and the arm pieces to my background piece and sewed them down.

     Now the page itself is done and all that's left is to customize your Potato Head :)

     I also made girl pieces like a flower for her head, a purse, heels, etc.  I forgot to take a picture though before I gave it to its new owner.  Whoops.  You can make as many pieces as you want for lots and lots of options :)  That's all there is to it, super simple!

Happy sewing friends!

     -Katie

Quiet Book Matching Game

     For this quiet book page, I wanted to do a game of some sort.  I decided on a matching game and I think it turned put really cute!  I haven't decided on what the background color will be for this page yet,  but here's what I have so far :)

     First I cut out all my pieces (my favorite part haha) and laid them out so I could see what I had and where to start.

after cutting out the pieces

When I was finished cutting everything out, I had:

2 red hearts

2 green triangles

2 orange circles

2 blue squares (small)

2 yellow stars

2 black 'x's

24 white squares (large)

     I started with pinning each of the colored shapes onto a large white square.

     Once they were all pinned to  white square, I sewed each of the shapes down.

first two done, woohoo!!

     When I was finished, half of my white squares had shapes sewn onto them and half had nothing on them.

     I took one shape/white square piece and one blank white square and set them aside until they all had a blank buddy.  Then I stacked them all with their partner shape, just because I wanted them organized somehow (and they were taking up a large portion of my table).

     Next, I sewed each of the colored shape/white squares to their blank buddy.  I did this so the shapes couldn't be seen through the back of the white squares when playing the game.  No cheating allowed!! Hehe

stacked up with their partners again :)

     Now they're all set and ready to play the game!

Happy sewing friends!

    -Katie

Quiet Book Long-neck Dinosaur Page

   

     For this page, I forgot to take pictures, but basically I just did the same thing that I did for the football page.  I traced my patterns onto newspaper, then pinned the newspaper patterns onto the felt like this:

     After pinning all the patterns to the felt, I cut the shapes out and stitched them all onto my background piece (the light blue felt).  The leaves were stitched on, I kind of just kept making more until the tree looked full enough, and left small gaps for three removable leaves.  I attached the removable leaves with small snaps.  When I stitched the dinosaur on, I left a gap in the front of its tummy so that it can 'eat' the leaves :)  And that's all there is to it!

     Now that the first two pages are done, I'll sew them together and add holes for the rings to go through to keep all the pages of the book together.  More on that later.

Happy sewing friends!

     -Katie

Quiet Book Football Page

 

      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