Baby Animal Quiet Book

While I was pregnant with Addy I was constantly trying to think of things to make and add to her nursery.We didn't have a big budget so almost all of our projects for the baby and decorations had to be homemade.  Which I love about her nursery now, it's so unique because everything was made by us.  One project that I really wanted to make was a quiet book.  I started to make a big quiet book, then realized that I wasn't going to finish before Addy was born so I made this quiet book first (I'm still working on the big one).  I didn't have a sewing machine at the time so I was looking for projects that would be easy to hand sew and this was definitely one of them.

I happened to have a lot of felt on hand and I used that for the pages.  I came up with a shape for the pages that I liked and made a pattern for it on piece of cardboard. I put the different color felt pages back to back and stitched them together with white thread.  And I cut the letters on the front and back of the book out of felt and sewed them on with white thread, too. 

I drew up the animals then cut them out of felt, too.  For the writing I used used embroidery floss.  The regular thickness of embroidery floss was too thick so I peeled off 2 strands and thread them through my needle to stitch the words.

For most of the pages I tired to use colors of thread and felt that were bold and contrasting.  This page is less bold than most of the others, but I think this is my favorite page because my owl came out pretty cute :). My daughters favorite page is the one before this though, it has a red page and blue page and the animal is a cow- she loves the black and white cow on the red page.

This is my baby chick page.  The other animals I used were a cow, a horse, and a pig. And then at the end, after all the animal pages, I want to go back and add a page that says "the baby says..." and then have a baby cooing. But I haven't done that yet.

And then this is the back of the book.  I held the book together with a big binder ring.  And now this quiet book sits in Addyson's nursery with her books and toys and she loves it :).