Well, once again, "tomorrow" has a very elastic meaning. No wonder it feels like my days are slipping by faster than they should. Today I wanted to share the felt book I made for my niece for Christmas. She's just a year so I thought she'd most enjoy a book about her little family.
I printed photos of my neice and her family on printable fabric. I'd planned to sew the photos to the felt pages but the fabric turned out to be iron on. I was short on time so I didn't add any stitching. Each single piece of felt has a photo ironed on to one side only.
After ironing the photos on to each felt piece, I stitched two felt pieces together to make them firmer. I wanted this book to be very soft. It could have been made even firmer with a stiff interfacing between the felt pieces.
I'll do the binding differently next time. This turned out too loose. I used a single sheet binding I learned from LK Ludwig. It works much better with firm pages. I think I have it figured out though.
This was a quick project. I had purchased the printable fabric in preparation for this project. Otherwise everything was in my stash. I take thousands of photos of my family each year so choosing and editing photos took an hour or so. The printing, cutting pages of felt, ironing on photos, and stitching took another 1 1/2-2 hours.
Hi! Just wanted to say that I love your blog & I especially like this project for Easter.
I’ve featured you on my blog here:
http://delicious-ambiguity-nennyk.blogspot.com/2010/03/easter-gift-ideas-for-toddlers.html
I hope you’ll stop by & check out my blog. You can get my new featured button on the top left hand side of my blog. Cheers, Jenn
Posted by: Jenn | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 at 06:16 AM