Project: quiet

For the last few weeks I have been working on a project with my friend Alison. We made quiet books for our kids to keep them occupied during church on Sunday (if you are wondering why kids need entertaining during church, read some of my old posts). Each page has a little activity to keep kids busy.

We worked on this project at Alison's house. Her table was covered with felt, scraps, notions, sewing machines, bags, supplies, etc. for two weeks. She patiently gave up the use of her dining room table. What a trooper! We combined our efforts; when one of us made a page, we made a second one for the other. The learning curve is pretty steep for this project. Many seams had to be picked apart and redone. We learned so much about our sewing machines and sewing in general. We also gave ourselves the title "Felt Masters" after all the felt cutting and sewing.

Our girls (she has three girls and I have two) entertained each other while we did our best to work on the project. Our most productive time was while Ruby and her twins napped and Alli and Annaliese played together.

We had so much fun working on these books, but we were glad to finish it up this week so we can use the books now (and show them off a little). They are super-darling!

Here are a few of our pages: