My first pages from long ago...

So, upon opening my quiet book box from long ago I found some pages that I had started to make. When my husband brought home a bunch of upholstery samples from his work, my first thought was quiet book. This was my initial idea for a layout. Looking back I realized that size was an issue. The size of the pieces were about 7x10. This was small for my bigger ideas, but it worked great for a few pages.
These ideas were from the first quiet book my mom made, a preschool type age book. I came up with the patterns myself.  I admit the snowman idea came from a neighbors quiet book I saw next to me at church, back in the day. The book was probably available at Deseret Book at the time, or something like that (maybe still is). So, in case you wanted an explanation. (and some bad pictures:)) here we go for the first pages I made for my quiet bible (as my brother calls it).


 The snowman was snapped in the original book. I thought I would make it more movable (aka. lose-able), and cut out individual pieces. I used three different sized cups to trace circles, then free handed a hat, scarf, arms, buttons, nose, and eyes. I made a little bag to hold all the pieces and wrote, "Once There Was A Snowman" in case my children couldn't make out what it was supposed to be. The blue background was a micro suede remnant that doubled as a good felt board.

Once there was a snowman with bag

leather cut out pieces of snowman from bag

I had seen a cute little tree somewhere online, and thought I would try to replicate it. I cut out the tree, trunk, 7 apple pieces, 7 orange pieces and a basket looking square.  I initially tried craft glue, then a glue gun to glue the zelcro to the tree and pieces. Those didn't last long, recently I found this amazing stuff called fusible velcro, seems to work and I didn't have to sew the leather. (the leather did get a little too much heat on some on the apples. woops.) I used craft glue to glue the tree and trunk to the fabric, now I have learned the value of wonder under, or fusible pellon. Those things sure make sewing these things easier.

Tree with apples and oranges (not biology class approved)

 I had to make the classic: tic tac toe. My older kid actually like this one. I just set a narrow zig zag, made the lines and then cut out the leather shapes and made a nifty pocket.

a used version of tic tac toe

The flower pot I cut out fabric for the pot (I should have put fusible pellon on the back or wonder under-ed it to the page). Then before I sewed the pot on I made a small zig-zag stitch for the stem and leaves. The flowers are leather with pellon fused to the back, a slit for the button.

The barn I started to make and had a few hiccups. I didn't Google much back when I was creating it, but now there are a wealth of patterns for a barn quiet book (at least it looks like it on Pinterest). I originally found a sticker page of animals, stuck them to paper, cut them out and put contact paper on them. Those pieces got lost in moves and so I made a one finger puppet to replace them, I probably will make more later.

my barn with a solitary chick

So, like I said these were, for the most part, ideas from my moms first quiet book, or the internet that I made on smaller pieces, then I sewed them onto larger pieces of pellon to match the other pages I later made.