Paula's ABC Quiet Book

Today's fantastic quiet book was made by mom Paula, who writes the blog "Making it up as I go."  She sewed pages for every single letter of the alphabet to help her girls learn their letters. Each page has the letter and several different items that start with that letter - for example, the "A" page has an embroidered apple, arrow, and ant. This book has so much cute embroidery - I love all the ideas Paula came up with for each letter! Please, enjoy!

A picture of the outside cover and handle:

How Paula bound the pages together with the cover:

Interview

What's your name? Describe yourself in one sentence. 
Paula! Stay at home mum, sewing nut, generally driven by the bizarre thought that I must be productive with everything I do.

Who did you make this quiet book for? How old are they?
My girls who are two and a half and one.

What's your level of sewing experience? 
Intermediate.

How long did it take you?
About four or five hours over six weeks. I was planning on it taking longer, but I put the pedal to the metal to get it done while my two year old was interested in learning letters.

Did you use any templates? Where can they be found? 
Nope. Everything came out of my head or from the scrap box and onto the page.

How did you bind your quiet book? 
Button holes and cord.

What material are the pages made out of? 
The pages themselves are bedsheets that I recycled.

What other materials did you use? 
Felt, cotton, scraps of who knows what, drill, rubber table protector, buttons, velvet, beads, cords, zip.

How much did all the supplies cost you? 
I aimed to make all of it from what I already had (hence cutting up the old bed sheet for the pages), but I did buy some of the fancy buttons and the ABC print fabrics too. Probably about $40.00 AUD all up.

What's your favorite page? Why? 
I love the C page for the simple reason that the car wheels turn.

To see Paula's quiet book on her own blog (with more pictures of details and explanations), click here: Making it up as I go: ABC Book Breakdown. 

Paula, thank you so much for submitting your adorable quiet book!

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Melina's Quiet Books

Today's awesome quiet books come to us all the way from Chile, made by mom Milena! They've got puzzles, memory games, counting games, and more.

Milena's first quiet book:

Milena's second quiet book:

Interview

What's your name? Describe yourself in one sentence. 
I'm half time rheumathologist and half time wife and mother of three.

Who did you make this quiet book for? How old are they? 
I made the first one for my oldest, who was 3 and a half when I did it, and the next one for my second of 2 years old.

What's your level of sewing experience? 
Basic.

How long did it take you? 
It took me too many hours, in about 2-3 months. But in that time I did 3 quiet books, one for my nephew too.

Did you use any templates? Where can they be found? 
No, But I copied several ideas from pinterest.

How did you bind your quiet book? 
I sewed the pages together and to the cover. I used lots of glue for the figures.

What material are the pages made out of? What other materials did you use? 
Only felt.

How much did all the supplies cost you? 
I don't know, but not too much.

What's your favorite page? Why? 
Of the first quiet book, the memory game. My son loves it. And of the second book, the spy page.

 

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Wendy's Quiet Book

Today's quiet book comes to us from Wendy, a grandmother living in Spain and author of the blog Spanish Crafter. It's very cute and has some great ideas. Some of the things I love about it are the buttons on her weaving page (such a great way to keep the fabric strips from flopping everywhere!), the bead page with tons of beads on strings, the alphabet bead page with square beads that can be rotated around to spell new words, the adorable flower page, and the alphabet page with letter flaps.

There's lots of great ideas in here! Enjoy!

Interview

What's your name? Describe yourself in one sentence. 

My name is Wendy L (Spanish Crafter) and I am 57 years old, retired and living in Spain.
 
Who did you make this quiet book for? How old are they?
I have 3 grandchildren, so this is for the eldest granddaughter Hollie who is 3 years old.
 
What's your level of sewing experience?
I used to sew when my sons were little and I had to buy a new sewing machine to make this book as mine was over 34 years old.

How long did it take you?
This took me about 2 to 3 weeks, maybe 40 or 50 hours in total.
 
Did you use any templates? Where can they be found?
I looked on Pinterest and YouTube for inspiration.
 
How did you bind your quiet book?
I used a Crop o Dial to punch holes and  grommets with 2 1a d 1/2 inch rings to bind it.

What material are the pages made out of?
It is made from felt as that means no fraying.

How much did all the supplies cost you?
Hard to say how much it cost as I am a card maker so many of the things I used I already had in stock.

What's your favorite page? Why? 
Hard to choose a fave page as I like them all and hope Hollie will too.  I like the counting page with the buttons underneath each flap.

To see Wendy's quiet book on her own blog, check out these posts:
Spanish Crafter: Sshhhh Quiet
Spanish Crafter: More Quiet Book
Spanish Crafter: More Quiet Book Pages
Spanish Crafter: More Quiet Book and Finished


Wendy, thank you so much for sharing your great quiet book with us!

 

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