Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Page 8: Hey Diddle Diddle Hidden Textures

Oh my, what can I say about this page? I was given this adorable piece of fabric illustrating the Hey Diddle Diddle nursery rhyme and I just couldn't figure out a way to use it in Andy's book without covering it up. After much pondering I decided to hide differently textured items under little flaps cut into the fabric. Voila!

Another tricky bit was that once I had the textured pieces sandwiched between the top and bottom fabric pieces I couldn't use the iron to fuse the pieces together. How does a person get two pieces of fabric to stay together without glue or fusible adhesive? Quilting. So after many evenings quietly quilting the page it is complete.




Friday, July 8, 2011

Inner Strength

As there are now several pages ready to go, I thought I'd better resolve how to stiffen the pages.

My conclusion is this: I'll purchase a large piece of corrugated plastic like the sheets used in the shipping office where I work. Once trimmed down to size, the plastic should offer enough stiffness so that Andy can manipulate all the items of his pages and I'll still be able to pop the pages into the laundry when needed without compromising the longevity of the page.

I'll make a pocket for the plastic to slide into by edging an activity page and a nursery rhyme page in bias tape, then use velcro or something similar to close the page before it is inserted into the binder.