This is a quiet book I made for my niece Vashti. My sister has added her own pages too. Like most of my quiet books, I designed it to be added to and swapped around.
I used a pattern I found
here for the front cover flowers, and embellished the flower centers with beadwork. The leaves from this pattern did not look like hydrangea leaves to me, so I used a leaf pattern I found
here instead. For the lettering, I printed a nice font from the computer to use as a pattern. The beads really made it come alive, hey!
I didn't sew the flowers back to back for stability like I do with most things. It would take away from the effect, and it's not really meant to be played with anyway.
Since Vashti was named after a queen in the Bible, Mum, my sister and I made a crown with interchangeable jewels to stick on. I plan to do a tutorial in a separate post, as I made a similar page for one of the Bible chapters. Its pretty easy to see what we did anyway.
As a template for the crown, I used this
colouring page from masivy.com. We used sticky velcro dots on the jewels, and sewed normal velcro onto the crown. I was a little worried that the sticky dots would come off easily but them seem to be fairly solid so far, and they have had a fair bit of use so I hear. This was Vashti's favourite page for a long time.
I also made a treasure chest to keep the extra jewels in. I used Stephanie's
Treasure Quiet Book Page pattern from Imagine Our Life.
The jewels are actually kept in a zip lock bag inside the treasure chest because otherwise they would fall out the sides, but who wants to spoil a picture with that!
Which page do you like the best?
