The Quiet Book Round-up!

All right! You've made it! I've subjected you to a million days of quiet book pages, and it is finally the end. Today I'm going to post all the pages, from beginning to end, so you can get a sense of how the whole book flows.

So, without further ado, the quiet book!

The lion page:

  
The barn and farm animals finger puppets page:

The apple tree and the dinosaur:

The car page:

The ladybug and the flowers:

Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head page and accessories:

The weaving page:

And the back!

So here's some technical how-I-did it: For the base of each page, I used the standard 9x12 felt sheets. I used felt for pretty much everything in the book, except the lion's ribbons, the car pocket, and the ladybug's wings (which were made of a spotty red fabric backed up with black felt).  I used sew-on snaps for the apple tree and the ladybug, velcro for the dinosaur, and big white buttons for the flowers. Most things in the book I sewed with my sewing machine; the very small or detailed things I sewed by hand. I'm planning on binding the book by sewing three small button holes on each page and the holding everything together with three three-inch metal binder rings, as soon as I can find some that big. And...I think that's everything!

Added in May: I finally got around to finishing the loops. I sewed three button holes on each page, and then used shoelaces for the loops. It works great!

 

This was a really fun project and I highly recommend it to anyone thinking about making one!

To download the entire Quiet Book template, click here or on the picture:

Here are links to all the quiet book pages:

The Lion (Texture) Page

The Farming Page (with finger puppets)

The Apple Tree Page and the Dinosaur Page

The Car Page

The Ladybug Page and the Flower Page

Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head Page

The Weaving Page

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The last page of the Quiet Book!

Okay everyone, thanks for hanging in there this whole time! Today I want to show you the last page and back cover of the quiet book.

Though the last page is actually a very simple concept and easily executed, it's actually pretty fun to play with. It's a weaving page:

All I had to do to make this page was measure the felt, cut out strips, and sew the edges down the top and left side. And done! It's actually pretty fun to play with, too. It's more complicated than it looks to weave all the strips together. So it should hopefully be pretty entertaining.

And here's the back cover of the quiet book:

As you can see, I sewed our last name on to the bottom left corner, in case we ever leave the book at church or something:

Ta-da! That's the whole book. I'll post a big summary post with all the different pages tomorrow, and a little bit more information about how I actually made it. :)

To download the free Weaving Page quiet book template, click here or on the picture:

To download the entire Quiet Book template, click here or on the picture:

Here are links to the other quiet book pages:

The Lion (Texture) Page

The Farming Page (with finger puppets)

The Apple Tree Page and the Dinosaur Page

The Car Page

The Ladybug Page and the Flower Page

Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head Page

The Weaving Page

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