Toddlers love to learn, and touch, and chew. This Inspiration covers all those aspects! It’s a soft fabric book with a cute colourful story, that can be popped into the washing machine after the little one has finished touching/reading/chewing it :). The perfect afternoon sewing project for all the makers out there, and a nice change for quilters. This would also be a great project for beginners to try their hand at a simple project that has that cute wow factor.
The Soft Book kit contains the fabric panels with all the story pages, and excellent easy-to-follow instructions, both written and visual. You’ll need some low loft batting; we quite like using Fusible Fleece. And of course coordinating thread, scissors, pins, sewing machine and an iron.
This is also a project where you can use some fun thread for your topstitching. We used a variegated thread which nicely accented the different page colours. Or what about also doing some outline quilting on the kittens and butterflies? That would also make them pop, a nice accent to the book. We were in a “get it done” frame of mind so we didn’t do that but kinda wished we had now.
Once all the pages are cut and sewn up, it’s worth taking a few minutes to organize the pages in the correct order. And although it looks like it would be a challenge to sew that final middle seam, it went quite easily with a quilting foot on the sewing machine. Don’t forget to backstitch at each end!
Now it’s time to take a coffee or tea break and read the story! Admire your handiwork! Hope you enjoyed the process because that really is what it’s all about!
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