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An easy tactile quiet book tutorial that makes learning the Bible story of Jacob stealing the blessing from Esau fun and memorable.

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Tic Tac Yo-Ho-ho! Jax has recently taken an interest in learning how to play tic-tac-toe (Noughts and crosses, Xs and Os, etc…) so I thought it would be a fun and quick page to sew up. This p…

Use this free A4 buttonhole guide to make ring binding felt quiet book pages easy. Can you notice the experiment I did with this book?

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find part one of my tutorial here! Each of your backgrounds will be a two-page spread, with the exception of "m" and "n." This means you will end up cutting out 12 rectangles and 2 squares rather than 26 squares, and it will make your construction much easier. You will cut your background rectangles (and your cover!) 12" x 6" and your squares 6" x 6 1/2". Layer your two squares right sides together and sew with a 1/4" seam allowance to create a 12" x 6" rectangle. You will also cut your (LIGHTWEIGHT!!) batting into seven 12" x 6" rectangles. Or if you are using felt, cut 14 rectangles. STEP ONE: You may want to "audition" your background fabrics with your letters to determine which ones work best. In my example book, I chose three backgrounds that would go well with any of my letter fabrics. I simply laid out my letter groups on top of my background fabrics and chose the best background for each group as a whole. I then listed my letters with each background color so I wouldn't get mixed up during my cutting and pressing (see photo). Here's a quick list that might be helpful: BACKGROUND ONE: a z, w d, g t, q j, m BACKGROUND TWO: y b, e v, s h, k p, n BACKGROUND THREE: c x, u f, i r, o l STEP TWO: Fold each page wrong sides together and press with your iron to create a crease. This will help when you are centering and pressing each letter in place. STEP THREE: Carefully remove the paper backing from your letters and center them within the squares. You will want to shift them just slightly towards the center to accomodate for the 1/4" seam allowance that will be taken on the outer edges. Press them in place with an up-down patting of your iron. Don't drag your iron side to side or you may risk distorting or shifting your letters. You will then take your finished pages and layer them together exactly as they will be in your finished book. This will ensure you get all the pages in the right places in the next step. STEP FOUR: Take one of your batting/felt rectangles and layer one of your pages letter-side up on top. Sew around the edges of each letter about 1/8" in from the edge using your clear monofilament thread. You are quilting and securing your letters at the same time. (If you are using batting, sew the letters on the opposite side of the page without batting.) STEP FIVE: Layer the two sides of your page right sides together. Double-check to be sure you've got everything in the right place. STEP SIX: Starting about two inches from the center bottom of the page, sew all the way around, stopping about two inches from the other side of the center bottom. STEP SEVEN: Trim the corners as shown. This will help give you nice pointy corners when you turn your page right side out. STEP EIGHT: Turn your page right side out through the opening. Use a chopstick or other blunt-yet-pointy object to poke the corners out. Don't stab too hard or you might rip a hole in the corner. STEP NINE: Press the edges of your page to give them a nice clean, straight edge. Remember to also press your opening, turning the raw edges inside as shown. STEP TEN: Choose a thread color for all the edges of your pages. Topstitch around all the edges of your pages about 1/8" from the edge, starting at the center bottom of the page. (Your stops and starts will hide here nicely once the pages are all sewn together.) Backstitch at the beginning and end of your stitching. To turn the corners, simply stop on the corner with your needle down, lift your presser foot and turn the page, then lower the presser foot again and continue sewing. You now have a nice stack of pages ready to be sewn together! STEP ELEVEN: Sew your pages together in two groups -- one group of three and one group of four. Lengthen your stitch to about 3 1/2 to help your machine get the pages through. Then you will sew the two groups together to create one book! You may want to hand crank it at first to see how your machine will react to all that bulk. Amazingly, on my last book my machine did it just fine! It helped to do the two groups first so everything was smashed down a little, and to avoid shifting all those layers. With this particular book my batting was TOO THICK -- and I ended up sewing my two groups together by hand. Yeowch! I definitely recommend a very lightweight batting or felt! If you make a book using my tutorial, I would LOVE to see it. Please send me a photo or a link!

In John chapter 13, Jesus washes His disciples feet. Memory Verse: “If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.” John 13:14 NKJV. Materials needed to create the Jesus Washes His Disciple's Feet quiet book page: A4 felt background sheet - I used mid blue my free John 13 - Jesus Washes His Disciple's Feet Bible Quiet Book Template Pattern the free template (first one) available at Nederig zijn - voetwassing by Alie Holman on the geloven is leuk blog - for the feet and bowl felt in light blue and white 1mm elastic in white rooster button - I bought this (not an affiliate link) button which looks like communion bread, or painted with nail polish and varnish to resemble some nail polish in bread colours (optional) varnish (optional - be careful, some varnishes can dissolve nail polish) white face washer sewing threads to best match the page Firstly, cut out your pattern pieces from the templates. You may need to print the wash bowl a few times to be able to cut all the pieces. Cut out a right and left foot from skin coloured felt and sew them down onto more skin coloured felt. Cut them out. To create the back section of the bowl, sew the light blue water section to the white bowl back. Then sew the white bowl back onto more white felt and cut it out. To create the front bowl section, sew the white front bowl section to white felt and cut it out. Do not attach the front section to the back section yet. Repeat this process for the water jug, sewing the front section to the back section along the sides and base leaving the top open as a jug would be. I chose a square button for the communion bread because that is the shape used by my church, and also the shape used for matzah in a Passover Seder. Matzah must be both striped and pierced (just like Jesus was), so I figured a button is already pierced, and the button I chose also had ridges - I just accentuated them when I painted it. You can of course use a round button if that is what your church uses. I imagine that matzah was round back in Jesus's day because that is an easier shape for people to make it at home. Paint your button with the nail polish to look like communion bread. You may need to do more than one coat. Seal it with the varnish. Try to keep the holes in the button from being blocked so you can thread them onto elastic. Create a circle with the elastic and tie a knot to secure. Fold the circle onto itself to create a double loop and pin it in place underneath where the bowl will be sewn. Roll up the face washer and check that you have the right length to pull the elastic loops over the buttons on the other elastic loops to hold it in place for storage. Use zig-zag stitch to secure the elastic to the page. Repeat this with the rooster button. Sew down the bottom section of the bowl along the sides and bottom to form a pocket for the jug behind. Sew down the top section of the bowl along the sides and bottom to create another pocket (inside the bowl) for the feet. Finished! Difficulty Level = Intermediate There are quite a few layers on this page, especially if you like things double sided like I do. To reduce the layers and make it easier to sew, you could just use the bowl to store the feet and jug and only make a single layer of white felt for the bowl back, sewing it down around the whole perimeter. Key Learning Areas and Skills John 13 - Jesus demonstrates the servant attitude He wants us to have at the Last Supper Imaginative play - wash and dry the Disciple's and one another's feet Fine Motor Skills - all quiet books encourage fine motor skill development Hand-eye Co-ordination - all quiet books encourage hand-eye co-ordination Read the ChapterJohn 13 DevotionalI had planned to have communion bread and wine as the buttons holding the face washer to the bottom of this page, but as I discovered when I read the chapter... there is no wine mentioned in this chapter! That was a surprise. I ended up switching the wine for a rooster, as the prediction that Peter would deny Christ before the rooster crowed three times is mentioned. I made another page for a church quiet book using the bread button and wine charm Rather than focusing on the communion aspect of the supper, John focuses on the foot washing, and the last instructions of Jesus (in this chapter, the New Commandment to love one another). I guess when Jesus says that if the whole body is washed, we just need to wash the feet, He is giving advice and comfort for when we find ourselves sinning even after we have been baptised. Foot washing was offered to guests when entering a home as a common courtesy. To not offer it would have been very impolite. Rich people wore sandals, but I think commoners had bare feet, and no mention is made of soldiers gambling for Jesus' sandals... so I think He probably didn't own a pair of shoes. You can imagine how dirty sandal-ed feet would get, let alone bare feet walking along a dusty or muddy road. It was probably littered with donkey and camel excrement as well. So I imagine having your feet washed was something both the host and the guest would appreciate, as well as all the diners next to them. I'm sure the meal tasted much better without that stench around. Sacrifice of Song ~ HE WASHED THEIR FEET ~ Michael Crawford, Vocalist If Jesus didn't own a pair of shoes, and borrowed a room for the Passover meal, asking his disciples to prepare it, I imagine that the room was not furnished with servants to wash anyone's feet. Not that I can imagine Jesus using servants anyway. Nevertheless, Jesus took the servant's role and washed His disciple's feet - something they were shocked to see. As usual, Jesus took an everyday object and used it to teach a profound lesson - one we are still pondering today. Follow Faith and Felt Obsession on Facebook, Pinterest and You Tube Does your church participate in the practice of foot-washing?

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When I found the book that we're featuring today, I fell in love. As you can probably tell, I love quiet books. I also love Harry Potter. So an amazing combination? A Harry Potter Quiet Book! This awesome book was made by Heather from Feather's Flights. I love all of her different pages - she has so many, and they're each so clever. This is seriously such a cute, fun book and I feel so inspired to make my own after seeing it. I hope you like it as much as I do. Enjoy! Interview What's your name? Describe yourself in one sentence. My name is Heather, nickname Heather Feather. I love sewing, I love my family, and I love sewing for my family. Who did you make this quiet book for? How old are they? I made the quiet book for my nephew when he was just over one. Looking back, I think he was too young for it. What's your level of sewing experience? Advanced. How long did it take you? It took me probably 15-20 hours spread over two weeks. Did you use any templates? Where can they be found? No. I did all the shapes myself. How did you bind your quiet book? I used those binder rings that you can open and close. (They look kind of like the rings in a binder.) What material are the pages made out of? Each page base is muslin and in between each page is stiff corduroy. (I didn't want to buy interfacing.) Everything on top of the page is felt. What other materials did you use? Just felt, thread, some ribbon, and a zipper. How much did all the supplies cost you? I bought the felt in a big bag at the thrift store for a couple of dollars and everything else I had on hand except the binder rings. I probably spent about $7 total. What's your favorite page? Why? My favorite page is probably the invisibility cloak at the end. But I loved coming up with each page. If I could go back and change something, I would make everything 10 times stronger. Now that I have a child of my own I realize how rough they are. To see Heather's post on her quiet book (with more information and descriptions), click here. Be sure to check out her blog in general, too. She's got lots of tutorials and sewing tips. Thank you, Heather, so sharing your awesome quiet book with us! Have you made a quiet book that you'd like to share? Click here for instructions on how to submit your own quiet book!

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The other day my friend Michelle linked me to Julie Gillrie's ever-so-adorable "quiet books." I imagine she did this because a) the books are super cute and b) she and her fam are as obsessed with Star Wars as we are and Julie's book is Star Wars-themed. As soon as I saw this UTTER BRILLIANCE I knew Offbeat Mama would never be complete without featuring it… so here we go!

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