Nephew's Quiet Book

I'm posting this over on my Quiet Book Blog today, so I thought I should share it here, too!

Back in April and May when my brother Banks and my sister Alyse and their families were visiting California, my nephew had his first birthday! For his birthday present, I made him a quiet book.

Something I did with this quiet book - and I really really love how it turned out - is I sewed it a cover. I cut a big piece of fabric out of a soft, old t-shirt, then sewed the first and last pages directly on to that fabric (turning in the edges so that it's a nice clean line). I sewed the two middle pages back to back, then sewed the edge of that back-to-back page to the middle of the inside of the cover. So, the whole book is all connected and one piece, and the cover is nice and soft!

Anyway, I'll quiet rambling. Here's Nephew's quiet book!

The individual pages:

The binding and cover:

If you'd like to see my other quiet books, you can click here: The Quiet Book Round-up!, the Butterfly Book, and Two New Quiet Book Pages.

My other nephew's birthday is this week, too...I guess I have to get busy, haha! ;)

Two new quiet book pages & Giveaway

A little while ago I was contacted by Amy Pincock from the popular craft blog Serving Pink Lemonade. She asked if I'd like to do a review and giveaway of her new book, Quiet Book Patterns: 25 Easy-to-Make Activities for Your Children, for my Quiet Book Blog. I said yes! 

I got her adorable book in the mail a couple weeks ago, and this weekend I made two quiet book pages using her templates and instructions. I really like how they turned out; I think they're really cute and I think Toddler and Baby will have fun playing with them. I'm glad I had this motivation to make some more quiet book pages.

I made a sock matching page:

And a "seasons tree" page:

I really like them. I've wanted to do pages like them for a long time, but haven't actually started because they seemed like too much work. The templates and instructions from the book were really helpful and gave me the boost I need to make them!

I think I'm going to make a washing machine page (like this one) to go next to the socks. I want to do another page to go with the seasons tree, but I'm not sure what yet. I'll figure it out.

And (how cool is this) I get to do a giveaway of this book, too! If you head over to this page on my Quiet Book Blog, you can enter to win a copy of Quiet Book Patterns: 25 Easy-to-Make Activities for Your Children.

Go enter! You might win!

Free Butterfly Quiet Book Template

Well, I did it. I made another one.

Do you remember when I mentioned here that I had been working on a project? Probably not, since it was just a little side reference and I never mentioned it again. Well, I was making another quiet book!

Two, actually. My niece Emily was turning one and so I made one for her birthday, and a copy of the same book for Ellie. 

I made a Butterfly themed book, called the Butterfly Book. And you can get the free template here!

I was inspired by the quiet books at Shaer Talents and One Lovely Life. The book is four pages long (not including the front and back covers). It has a caterpillar page, a flower page (with little butterflies on ribbons), a big butterfly with flappy wings page, and a leaf pocket page (full of colorful shapes to decorate the butterfly's wings with).

Here's the caterpillar page and the flower page with tiny butterflies:

The caterpillar on the caterpillar page has removable body pieces, attached with velcro. It also has a peekaboo little caterpillar hidden in the cocoon. 

Here's the flower page:

The flowers are attached by their yellow pollen-y part in the middle. Since the petals aren't sewn down on the edges, they kind of pop up and are ruffly. Ellie really likes playing with them.

This page also has two little butterflies attached to the page by ribbon. They can "fly" to each flower and land on them.

Here's the butterfly dress-up page. It's got a big butterfly to decorate, and a big leaf pocket to hold all of the different, colorful wing shapes:

The butterfly is attached just by its body (with the edges of the wings sewn underneath the body) so that the wings are free to flap up and down.

And here's the back:

Ellie loves playing with it. Her favorite page is definitely the first one; she loves taking the velcro caterpillar off the page and carrying the pieces around.

Since there was such a big demand for a template the last time I made a quiet book, I made sure to make one this time around! To download the free Butterfly Quiet Book Template, click here or on the pictures below:

Happy quiet book making! If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask. :)