How to Make a Quiet Book: Tent & Sleeping Bag Zippers
About Alissa:
My name
is Alissa. My husband and I have
one daughter who is 15 months old.
She is the best little baby!
I’m a little biased, but I think its ok since I’m her Mom! My hobbies have gone to the wayside
since I had the baby, but I normally love running, camping/hiking, and
reading. I also like paper
crafting, photography, and quilting.
I am new to the quiet book world, but there are some really great ideas
out there! I was so excited to be
able to give it a try.
How to Create the Tent & Sleeping Bag Zippers
Quiet Book Page
Supplies:
Etsy
(K and C supplies):
- 25 5 inch zippers in multiple colors
- 25 4 inch zippers in multiple colors
Hobby
Lobby:
- 3 sheets stiffened gray felt
- 2 sheets stiffened black felt
- 1 sheet each stiffened baby blue, yellow, and red felt
JoAnn’s
Fabrics:
- 2.5 yards Pellon Peltex 70 Ultra Firm Stabilizer (cut into 8.5X10in pages)
- 1.5 yards blue felt for background
- Dark blue thread
Walmart:
- Light Blue and yellow thread
On
Hand:
- Air erasable fabric pen
- White chalk pencil
- Quilting basting tape
- Red, Black, White, and Gray thread
- Heat embosser
- Paper cutter
- Rotary cutter and board
- Sewing machine
Inspiration:
I got my
idea from the K Leigh Ford Blog and modified it. I love her ideas, but didn’t think I
could do all the details in time for the swap. So I simplified it a little. I did add a zipper on the inside sleeping bag for a little
more fun for the kids. I would
have loved to have added stars in the sky and a little bear inside the sleeping
bag!
My Mom and husband helped
guide me along the way since I had never done this before. The baby even got to help test it
out. She opened the tent without a
problem. I have to say that I saw
the coolest zipper page on the Imagine Our Life Blog, but with my limited
skills, I definitely didn’t want to take that one on in a month.
Page
Assembly:
1. Cut pellon
pages (8.5x10 inch) with a rotary cutter.
2. Cut
the blue felt a little larger than the pellon (9X10.25 inch) with the rotary
cutter. Center the pellon on the
blue felt square and pin. Sew together
with the pellon side facing up leaving a 1/8” edge. We used white thread on top with dark blue bobbin
thread.
This is
how the background looks when you sew it before you trim it.
3. Once
the background is sewn, turn the page pellon side up and use a straight edge
and rotary cutter to cut a smooth edge.
I left about a 1/16th inch overlap of blue felt so the
background would fully cover the pellon.
4. I hand drew the tent and used the paper cutter to make the sleeping bag template. The templates and measurements can be downloaded as a pdf here.
5. Trace and cut all of the tents and
sleeping bags. (It may be easier
to use the measurements and a paper cutter for the sleeping bags. I did trace the zipper area on the
sleeping bags though.) I used the
chalk pencil to trace and cut around the lines to get rid of the chalk.
7. Sew the 4
inch zippers to the sleeping bags and 5 inch zippers to the tents. Rather than use pins to hold the pieces
together, we used basting tape.
(Make sure not to sew through the tape, the needle gets too
sticky.) I used a small piece of
basting tape at the end of the zipper.
8. Sew the sleeping bags to the background piece. I eyeballed the spacing, but you can
see measurements here: We used matching thread for the top thread and white
bobbin thread to leave the back of the page plain and white. It was easiest to sew both sleeping bag
pieces at once. In order from top
to bottom: top sleeping bag piece with zipper sewn in, bottom of sleeping bag, dark
blue felt, and pellon (already sewn to blue felt). I used basting tape again to keep the bottom of the sleeping
bag from slipping sideways.
9. Cut and sew
the moon to the background. (For
the template, click here: ) Your zipper page is complete!
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