I made this book for my son Max's 2nd birthday. I hope it inspires others to make their own quiet books to encourage young kids to read. This book took two months to create...I had to work on it whenever I had spare time and I stayed up many a night trying to finish it by his birthday. All the patches are hand stitched and I'm really very proud of it! I got some page ideas off of pinterest and some pages are entirely my own. I hope you enjoy looking at it as much as I enjoyed making it.
I used scrap fabric from my stash. The cover is made from fake fur and an old table cloth! I sewed them together to make a pocket and stuck a canvas board on the inside so it's hard like a book. The eyes I hand stitched and the title on the front cover is hand stitched and I put gold glitter glue on top of the thread to give it a little bit of a shine.
Before I bound the book together I hand sewed brown yarn on the side of the book to give it a furry textured look. Originally I wanted to make a spiky spine but once the yarn was sewn on I liked the simplicity of it. So I decided to just sew on the handle and call it good. The handle came from a picture frame we got at WWoHP that wouldn't stay on the frame (only because my children couldn't stop playing with it) Then I sewed the tongue bookmark into place on the inside of the spine.
Binding the book was the hard. I didn't really know what I was doing. I left some extra fabric from the cover. Made a little flap. Then I sewed green crushed velvet (with interfacing to get rid of the stretch) and sewed all of the pages together. Once the green was hand sewn together I hand sewed the front and back pages to the extra flaps on the front and back cover. I hope that makes sense. It worked great.
Every page is backed with fusible interfacing. I also used a LOT of fusible webbing. Fusible webbing is the best thing ever! Make your own appliqués, iron them on, and then top stitch. It's super easy! However, very time consuming. This book was a joy to make and my son LOVES it! I tried to put a lot of care and detail into it. My dream is that JK Rowling will some day see it and smile and that the book will get passed down to my grandchildren. Harry Potter has brought a lot of magic into my life when I've needed it most and I'm really excited to share that with my children! I hope you enjoy looking at our Monster Book of Monster's/Harry Potter quiet book. If you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them. Luckily I used mostly scraps from my stash and only ended up spending $30.00 to make it! It would have cost a lot more if I didn't have so much on hand. Max's favorite pages are the pixie ABC's and quidditch. Even after a couple months those are still his go to pages :)
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