Quiet Book - Snowman Dress Up

Since I was giving this gift at Christmas, I wanted to include either a Santa or Snowman page and I settled on Snowman. I came up with a dress the snowman concept and made a bunch of hats, scarves and a few ties for the snowman to wear. Here was the planning phase:

I just copied and pasted hats I found online to use as templates for my hats.  I knew I wanted the hats to look super cute and realistic, so that meant a lot of detail work and hand-sewing.  I made a polka dot tie by adding French knots (first time doing them) and it turned out so cute!!!

Then I ordered really wide Velcro and made the entire snowman out of Velcro. Then I used stick on Velcro dots on the back of the hats and on the closet page.

For the background, I made snow on the ground and a few pine trees.  I made an adjoining page with shelves to store the hats.

For this Project you'll need: 

light blue felt sheet

white felt sheet

dark green felt sheet

brown felt sheet

colorful felt scraps (for the hats)

orange scrap (for the carrot nose)

wide Velcro

sticky back Velcro dots

needle and embroidery thread

sewing machine

Two small black buttons (for the eyes, optional)

snowflake brads (optional)

                                                 

If you're thinking of making a quiet book, an assortment of felt will help you get started!

Christmas Cookies for Santa - Quiet Book

For this Project you'll need:

1 sheet of the following colors: dark blue, medium green, light brown, medium brown, yellow, white, red, light green

needle and thread

scissors

sewing machine

velcro

embellishments

Noah's Ark and Rainbow Quiet Book Pages

The Noah's Ark page was one of the easiest to make - I used Microsoft Word to make a simple pattern for myself.  (I set the page size to 9x9) and then created this pattern with shapes.

For This Project You'll Need:

blue or gray felt - sky

blue felt - water

dark brown felt - middle piece

black felt - for the inside

light brown felt for the boat/roof pieces/ramp pieces - I found this textured felt at JoAnn Fabric

scissors

sewing machine

animals - see below

Sewing steps:

FIRST - sew on the ocean piece (to the sky/background piece) - I sewed around the edge first and then sewed a few wavy lines in the middle and I love that it adds dimension and looks like waves

SECOND - Sew the dark brown middle piece

THIRD - sew the black piece (this will be what shows when the ramp is open)

FOURTH - add the boat and roof pieces - on the boat top, I sewed about an inch down and two inches on each side. to make a pocket where the animals could stand and left the middle open)

FIFTH - sew the ramp, just across the bottom (you cold add felt or a snap, but I just left it plain, felt sticks to each other fairly well)

I had planned to create little, intricate plush or finger puppet animals, but I was feeling the need to simplify where I could, so when I found these felt animal stickers at Michaels, I thought they were perfect.

I wanted to create a rainbow page opposite the Noah's Ark page, since it's part of the story - I decided to make it multi purpose - a zipper to practice and a pouch to store the animals.  I cut strips of felt to make the rainbow and sewed each to an 8x8 background, then sewed that to a 9x9 page background.

Planning to make your own Quiet Book - get started with a felt assortment:

Quiet Book - Buckle Puppy's Collar

This is a pretty simple page to put together - I cut everything out without a pattern (which is unusual for me).  I found faux fur at Hobby Lobby near the felt and loved it for the puppy ears.

For this project you'll need:

light brown felt

dark brown felt

oatmeal felt

faux fur

black felt (small amount)

white felt (small amount)

white felt for background (my pages are cut to 9x9 inches)

buckle

ribbon

scissors

sewing machine

hot glue gun

Sew around the big pieces and hot glue the smaller pieces.  I just sewed the tops of the ears, so they can flop around and lift up.

Thinking about making a Quiet Book? Buy an assortment of felt to get you started!