The Fabric Book

I love your little fabric book....
Kate

That really is cute. And I can say that even if I WERE disappointed that it
wasn't a book of fabric swatches!

Nana

"dogsnus" wrote in message
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I finally finished the first little fabric book,or almost; it
still needs some threads trimmed and a covered velcro strap
to close it up and a title,but here it is:

Extended:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsn...abricbook2.jpg

All closed up:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsn...abricbook3.jpg

This one goes to P.J.,just as soon as I finish his Momma's
quilt cover,(almost) and the next one for Hailey is all cut
out and ready to sew.

dogsnus wrote:
I finally finished the first little fabric book,or almost; it
still needs some threads trimmed and a covered velcro strap
to close it up and a title,but here it is:

Extended:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsn...abricbook2.jpg

All closed up:
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~dogsn...abricbook3.jpg


Nice. The kidlets will love it.


There was someone on Simply Quilts a while ago (we get the old shows
here, not the latest) who demonstrated fabric books that didn't go
together as a zig-zag but that were paged through like real books. I've
got to sit down and figure out again how she did it, but I'll try to
recount it here. First you trimmed each block to make a page. Then you
sewed two pages together with a rectangle of fabric between them. The
rectangle becomes the binding. Then you combined one pair with another
pair with batting between. I'd have to see again how that happened so
that one pair is the back, another is the front. You quilt at that
point. You make 4 quartos like that, stacked the 4, folded them in half
and sewed through all of the rectangles to form the binding of the book.
There were 16 pages in all. I know I'm doing a terrible job of
explaining because I've never done it myself, but I think it is a great
idea.


--Lia

Brainstorm here. Instead of figuring out how the blocks go into
quartos, why not just sew them together with extra rectangle between
them, line them up zig-zag fashion, then sew through the rectangle?
Instant binding in book form. I've just tried it with a scrap of paper
and don't see a problem. Or does each page become too thick as the back
is wasted?

--Lia


dogsnus wrote:

No,I think I'm seeing what you're describing. It's too late to do
that on this one,but I might attempt it on the next.It occurs to me
that extended,the book is too huge for little hands to deal with.
What you're describing sounds like a good idea.
It sounds like the large back binding of a photograph book,designed to
expand after it's filled with pictures,but on a smaller scale.

I'll report after I've finished the second one.

Terri

I made a few of these. I'd offer up my book, but I gave it to someone else
already. What you do is make four pages, and sew pairs together with a long
narrow rectangle. The rectangles act as the binding of the book. When you
have the two pairs together, sew them together with right sides facing,
leaving a hole to turn it inside out. Slip stitch the hole closed, and that
is one pair of pages. The rectangles for the front and back page set should
be 1/2 inch wider, and that makes the cover stick out a bit past the other
pages. The books I did for my son each had twelve pages, but I'm sure you
could do more easily.

These are so much fun to make. I like to use a FQ of a focus fabric, then
use scraps to make little books.

Jennifer in Florida

"dogsnus" wrote in message
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Julia Altshuler wrote in
news:1sF3d.228983$mD.75346@attbi_s02:

Brainstorm here. Instead of figuring out how the blocks go into
quartos, why not just sew them together with extra rectangle between
them, line them up zig-zag fashion, then sew through the rectangle?
Instant binding in book form. I've just tried it with a scrap of paper
and don't see a problem. Or does each page become too thick as the back
is wasted?

Let's find out,shall we? The more I look at this one,the less pleased
I am with it. I'll report when I've tried your brainstorming idea.
Most likely this weekend as I've got to rip the stitches out first
to give it a whirl.

Terri


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For that you need Twinkies and lunch meat. Eternity through preservatives.

Terry Von Gease