Soft fabric children's book

I wanted to make a fabric book for my daughter, and was tossing up ideas about an alphabet book, or something with appliqué animals, then I found this fabric with fusible backing that you can print straight onto with your ink jet printer and then iron directly onto fabric, and I thought how nice it would be to make a book of our family, so when they are not with us we can continue to talk about them and show Ruby pictures.

We had lots of this cute fabric left over from covering hay bales at our wedding, so I used that and batting to make the book pages. I had to hand sew the pages together as the finished book was too fat to fit in my machine, but otherwise it was a pretty straight forward endeavour.

I love this little book, and think that as Ruby gets bigger she will too, it was already a hit with my 3 year old nephew.

My favourite part is the last page, where there is a little mirror so she can see herself. I love that whatever age she is, she will be able to look in and there she will be.

For tips on how to assemble a fabric book try Lella Boutique or Don't call me Betsy.

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Easy reversible baby dresses

I have been a little bit obsessed with Pinterest of late, so much so that I often find myself so busy pinning things to make that I run out of time to actually make anything. So, with an upcoming holiday to sunny Noosa a few weeks away I decided to try my hand at finally making an item of clothing for our little Ruby. I enjoyed it so much that I cracked on and made two!

This pattern I found on Pinterest, and it was very easy to follow. This pattern, and many other gorgeous kids patterns, can be purchased online from Tie Dye Diva Patterns.

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