Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Project Soft Book: COMPLETE!

A HUGE project that has been a long time in the making is now complete! A project that took presidence over any other craft for the past several months. Hooray it is finished...kind of! 

Several months ago, my DIY club decided to take on a major task. One that would go into the record books for our club and be talked about amongst ourselves well into our old age. We decided to make a soft book for our children! A 20 page soft book! My dear friend, Nicole, was the ringleader of the group and had it organized, scheduled and perfected. There are rules to this kind of thing, ya know! All 20 of us signed up to make a specific page that we would design and then hand produce 20 of that page. We had to sew each background, each decoration and each activity onto our page - no gluing! Nicole also figured out a good size ( 9X12) and what material (canvas) was best.  We also had to sign up on a list so stating what we were going to make so that 2 people didn't end up doing the same page. At the end, we would swap our pages and end up with 20 activity pages for an incredible soft book! We got together several times over the past few months to work on the pages and it seemed like the challenges and the work was never ending! From cutting the canvas, shopping for materials, hand cutting all pieces then sewing it all onto the 20 pages - I can say this definitely was a labor of love! 

Well, the end finally came on Tuesday night! We got together and swapped the pages, celebrated and rejoiced! I was so incredibly happy with the results and felt very lucky to be part of such a talented and amazing group of women! I just marvel at each of their pages and imagine them working so diligently on them - with care, precision and passion!

A HUGE thanks to all the crafty and amazing women in our group! Several of them have blogs too so feel free to stop on by their blogs and check out their talent yourselves!



Dear Tia working so hard on getting the pages bound together!


Caroline is a multitasker! Shoot the breeze and sewing all at the same time!


Susan is a team player! She helped trim the canvas pages to size, removing fringe and dangling strings and made them easier to sew!


The gang is all here! 15 women, one house, one mission!


Karisa was a total trooper the whole way! She worked on her pages at 9 months pregnant, then showed up with new baby Harper by her side to get it all done!


The work!


Amy, Kristin and Eva taking a break with a few sips of Diet Coke and good conversation!


No party is complete without a table full of delicious treats to fill the bellies!


I am up to my ears in soft book pages and I could not be happier! Now I am off to the fabric store to buy some bias tape for the edges! 


Have any of you made soft books?
Do you belong to a craft club?
Have you ever gotten yourself into the middle of a project and realized you may be in over your head?



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4 comments:

Ashley said...

WOW. It seems like SO MUCH WORK but also kind of fun. Actually I bet you had a great time. The books are amazing. I wish I could see each page.....

{natalie} said...

i wish i were apart of that craft group. what a cool project but i'm sure it would be totally overwhelmed.

Unknown said...

YAY! love that you took all of these pictures! So happy to be almost through. can't wait to see your final pages

Joan said...

That many pages is really a time and money investment. Memories forever though. It's going to be really special.

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