Quiet Books

Quiet Books 101

Every Sunday our 3 grandkids and their mom share a bench with us at church.  Six bodies gets kind of crowded.  Caleb is pretty good about entertaining himself...the twincesses are another story.  They are 3. They don't sit still for longer than 5 seconds and get tired of the same things to keep them occupied every week.  They think Grandma rocks (mainly for killing spiders, but that is another story), so I decided to make them a quiet book  in hopes of being able to hear at least some of what the speakers have to say.  Piece of cake for a veteran seamstress such as myself, right?  Little did I know what I was in for.  

I looked at a lot of posts on Pinterest and picked out a few ideas that looked the easiest to start with.  I was a newby to Quietbooking after all.  Most of the instructions said that using pellon for the pages was better than felt because it kept its shape better.  Pellon is was.  I got myself to Joann's Fabrics and bought 5 yds. of pellon.  I figured that would make more than enough pages.  I cut the pages twice the length of a regular page so that I could fold them in half, which would save on the cutting and stitching. 

Here is where I confess that I made a big mistake.  I my haste, I ended up buying fusible pellon instead of the regular kind.  I didn't realize this fact until I started sewing on the pieces that needed to be more stable. After ironing on the felt pieces that didn't need to be sewed, my pages stuck together and I couldn't sew anything to the back side of the page. I finally worked out how to get all the pieces sewn down and glued on, but take my advice... read the label on the bolt of whatever you buy at the fabric store.  If I try this again, and it''s a big "IF", I might use all that fusible pellon I have left to fuse 2 pieces of felt or cotton fabric together for pages.  Wish I had thought of that sooner.

Anyway - 

Here are a few of the pages I made.  I think I will test drive these Sunday at church.  Who knows, maybe I'll be able to hear some of what is said from the pulpit.

If you click on the Pinterest link at the top of my home page and go to my Quiet Book Pinterest Board, you'll be able to see some very creative ideas, some of which I used for my pages. Most follow the same basic construction method and there are several ideas for quiet book covers as well.  

Thanks for stopping by.  Until next time...