Today's quiet book is absolutely fantastic. Made by Maria, a kindergarten teacher, it is princess-themed, and just so detailed and adorable. The front cover looks like a castle, and opens up to another castle scene complete with horse-drawn carriage. As the pages go on children are able to change the weather through a window, practice numbers on a clock, play dress up, hang up laundry on a laundry line, put food together for a picnic, do puzzles, build a cake and decorate it with candles, play with a telephone, and put on a finger puppet show. It is a really remarkable book.
Interview
What's your name? Describe yourself in one sentence.
My name is Maria. I'm 22 years old and I am a kindergarten teacher.
Who did you make this quiet book for? How old are they?
This book is intended for all children. When I discovered Quiet Books I was excited and I began to make one.
What's your level of sewing experience?
My level of sewing experience is medium.
How long did it take you?
I have been creating this book since August. I didn't work steady at this but I really don't know how many hours it took to complete!!
Did you use any templates? Where can they be found?
I didn't use any templates. I looked on Google, YouTube and Pinterest, for inspiration and after that I drew it by myself.
How did you bind your quiet book?
I sewed the pages between them.
What material are the pages made out of?
The pages were created by felt mostly, but I used some other fabrics.
How much did all the supplies cost you?
The total materials cost was about 35 euros.
What's your favorite page? Why?
It's difficult to choose, I love each page!!!
Maria's craft Facebook page can be found here: My Quiet Book.
Thank you, Maria, for sharing your amazing quiet book with us!
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Today's quiet book comes to us from Yankee, and it is so cute.
The front cover has a name sewn onto it, along with a car that has a little pocket. Peppa Pig and her family are finger puppets that fit into the pocket and look like they're driving in the car.
The book opens up to show a car page with several adorable little vehicles, including an ambulance and a fire truck, and several road signs (like a traffic light, stop sign, etc.). Across from the car page is a laundry page with a washing machine, lots of clothes, a clothes line, and socks that velcro off the page.
Next Yankee has a clock page with colorful numbers and moveable hands, and a shoe-tying page where children can practice making a bow.
Next comes one of my favorite pages - Cookie Monster! Cookie Monster's mouth zippers open and you can pull out a lot of cookies, each of which has a different number of chocolate chips sewn on top. These match to numbers on the next page, for children to practice counting and number recognition.
The next page is absolutely adorable, too. It's a nature scene with an apple tree (whose apples you can pick and put in a basket) and several animals to play with - a cow, giraffe, elephant, and lion. Opposite the apple tree page is an alligator (or crocodile) with a bird on his nose and a zipper mouth. Underneath him in the water there are several fish that can velcro off the page and go inside of his mouth.
The last pages in the book are a flower page and a shape page. The flowers can button on and off of their stems and store in the flower pot. The shapes page has ridiculously cute shapes (I love how they're puffy/stuffed) which velcro off and can be matched the their embroidered shapes on the page.
It is an adorable book and looks so fun to play with. Thank you for sharing it with us, Yankee!
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Today's post is special because we've never had a quiet book presented like this before. Clara from the blog Claras Nahkiste, instead of taking pictures of her quiet book, has made this video where she walks through the book and shows all of the interactive things that it does.
Clara's quiet book is huge and awesome. She has so many pages, and all of them look so fun to play with. Her video shows a clever cover and binding rings, a dress up page full of little clothes, a name page with moveable letters, a laundry page with socks that can go in a washing machine, an "I Spy" page with a removable bag full of things to find, a fruit-picking tree page (with multiple kinds of fruits and baskets, a weather and flower page, a farm page (with adorable finger puppets - sooo cute), an igloo page with ice building blocks and snow characters, a car page with a big map of the town, an elephant with a tail you can braid, a camping page with a zipper tent, a clock page with moveable hands, and a mailbox with letters inside. Each page has more detail than I've summed up here, that's shown in the video.
This book would be such a treasure to have as a child!
Interview
What's your name? Describe yourself in one sentence.
My name is Clara, I'm 23 and I'm a crazy, sewing, Berlin teacher-to-be.
Who did you make this quiet book for? How old are they?
I made this book for my niece and godchild Sophie for her third birthday.
What's your level of sewing experience?
I sew for more than three years now and I think I'm advanced.
How long did it take you?
I sew it over three weeks, in my semester break, all in all it took 66 hours.
Did you use any templates? Where can they be found?
I used some templates from this blog and many inspirations from Pinterest.
What material are the pages made out of?
They all are made of cotton fabric in different colors, many details are made out of felt.
What other materials did you use?
Felt, as mentioned and something that's called Vliesofix in Germany. It's used to make appliqués.
How much did all the supplies cost you?
Because I bought nearly no fabric, the costs were small. I think about 30€. What's your favorite page? Why?
My favourite page is definitely the car-page. I love, that the lights of the car can flash and that my niece can visit her grandmothers or grandfathers house. It's also the page, she likes most :)
Hello everyone! Today I get to share with you a beautiful book made by Jenny of the blog The Bushcrafter. Jenny is a craft teacher from Sweden, and her book is an absolutely beautiful creation. Her fabric choices and colors make this book a visual treat. I just want to stare at the colorful ferris wheel and hot air balloon pages for hours. Please, enjoy!
Interview
What's your name? Describe yourself in one sentence.
I’m Jenny; I am a big-hearted creative dreamer.
Who did you make this quiet book for? How old are they?
This piece was made as a side project and I found that I loved this free, intuitive process of finishing one page before starting the next one. I had no specific person in mind when I started, I just wanted to explore different techniques.
What's your level of sewing experience?
I am a craft teacher.
How long did it take you?
Making these books take about a week, I only create on my spare time!
Did you use any templates? Where can they be found?
I have no templates, instead I work with shapes that come to me in the moment, while I’m creating.
How did you bind your quiet book?
All pages are stitched together by hand.
How much did all the supplies cost you?
Not much, the fabric I use is recycled, thrifted or handmade by me (often woven or hand painted). While making these books I feel like the queen of scraps, I just know that there is place for even the smallest scrap of fabric in them.
What material are the pages made out of?
Scrap fabric of cotton, leather, felt, fleece and many other materials.
What's your favorite page? Why?
My favorite page is absolutely the page with the clock. I like how the crochet doily pops out!
Today I get to share with you two quiet books made by Ruth of the blog Simply Ruthie for her friends' twin toddlers. These quiet books are twins themselves - similar at first glance, but each is unique. Each cover has the name of the twin whose book it is; once you open it up, you find tic tac toe pages (one with clouds and suns, one with flowers and butterflies), fruit trees (one with apples, one with oranges), barns (each full of finger puppets), shape matching and bead counting, ladybug clocks, and "under the sea" pages. The back covers have pockets for little dolls.
I like so much about these quiet books, starting with the fact that they mirror each other, but each has its own unique details. I think my favorite page is the orange tree page - it's such a fun twist on the traditional apple tree page and I like how bright the oranges are. I also really like the blue and white background on that page that makes it look like there's a sky. Each of the pages in these books looks so fun to play with, and I am sure that the twins are going to enjoy them a lot.
Thank you so much for sharing your cute quiet books with us, Ruthie!
Today's quiet book was shared with me in unique circumstances. I was contacted by Gerd from South Africa, who had found this quiet book in a charity shop.The last page in the book lists the contact information of a woman named Dolores, who made the book. Gerd was able to get in contact with her family, and found out that Dolores passed away in January of this year, at the age of 95.
According to Dolores's obituary, she "...was born April 22, 1918 in Shelby, Ohio, the daughter of the late Joseph and Gertrude (Tome) Heiland. As a homemaker, Dolores was an excellent baker and cook. Known as the “cake lady,” she baked and decorated thousands of cakes for graduations, birthdays and many other occasions for many area families. She also loved doing crafts and needlepoints and cherished time with her children and grandchildren."
Thank you to all the women who share their love and brighten the lives of their families by sharing their talents with them. I hope you enjoy Dolores's quiet book. :)
I am constantly amazed at all the talent that the readers of this blog have. I receive submission after submission that just leave me floored. Sabrina's quiet book is no exception - from the fantastic embroidery, to the awesome cover, to each and every one of the creative, cute, and fun pages.
Some of my favorite pages from Sabrina's quiet book include her solar system page (wow! So cute and cool and the detail on her planets is incredible!), her farm page (the ears of corn are awesome), her refrigerator page (looooove all the food), and her forest page (again - the detail is just incredible). It would be hard to not be inspired by this book. So please, enjoy!
Interview
What's your name? Describe yourself in one sentence.
My name is Sabrina and I am a stay at home mama from Germany.
Who did you make this quiet book for? How old are they?
I made it for my wonderful daughter Christina. She is almost 2 years old and already loves her book.
What's your level of sewing experience?
I think I am advanced.
How long did it take you?
I don't know... Maybe 2-4 hours per page. I do all embroidery files by my own which has taken the most time to complete.
Did you use any templates? Where can they be found?
Most ideas I found on this blog. I made my own embroidery and cutting files. I am not very good in handstiching. So I decided my machines can do the work :). Here are two other pages I found my inspiration
from - Solar system: Imagine Our Life: Solar System Quiet Book Page; Forest page: Meli Melo: Wild Animal Habitat.
How did you bind your quiet book?
I used grommets and binder rings.
What material are the pages made out of?
I don't know the English word. In German it's called embroidery felt. It is for embroidery applications and it is washable and stable.
What other materials did you use?
Cotton and fleece for applications. Ribbons, buttons, KamSnaps, and felt.
How much did all the supplies cost you?
I think the materials which I used have a value of more than 60€. About $80.
What's your favorite page? Why?
Ooooh! This is hard to say!
But my top 3 pages are
- solar system
- farm page
- forest page.
Thank you so much for sharing your book with us, Sabrina. It's fantastic!
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