Quiet Book Page ~ Bunny & Chick Finger Puppets ~ Free Embroidery Download

    I'm making Quiet Books for a few children.  I decided to make pages that are kept together by a ring so they can be added as I make them.  The Easter page is not the first I made but in starting to share the book, I thought I'd share this one first since Easter is approaching.
    EnJOY! 

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      The pages start with a 12 inch square of fabric which eventually are sewn with another page with a ¼ inch seam leaving a finished 11½ inch square page.
     For this page, to make the pocket I started with two 8 inch squares.

        Decorate the top half of one of the squares as you like.  I appliqued single flowers on one and clusters on another.  It's whatever you like.
      Fold in half and stitch around ends and across one long edge.  Turn inside out, press.
 



Place the folded edge of one along the bottom of the page.  




 

Place the folded edge of the other piece ½ inch from top of page.    

          In the above picture, the right is the pocket.  It was stitched across the bottom, turned up and top stitched around 3 edges and tacked on the corners to withstand a lot of hard pulling. On the left the top flap has been stitched along the raw edge, ready to turn and top stitch.

I used 2 rows of top stitching.




 



I was making sure the raw edge didn't show when I turned up the flap.

 Using my Master Works Embroidery software, I created a Bunny and Chick finger puppet which I'm offering as a free download in this post.  They are PES files.  You can convert them using a free software.  

Bunny Finger Puppet Embroidery File Download

Chick Finger Puppet Embroidery File Download

As you can see, I didn't cut out the holes for the fingers, but instead cut a cross.

    The bunny looks like it was made from terry cloth (towels), when in fact it was an old sweater with just the right texture for this project. I used 2 layers wrong side together, with a thin padding fabric in between to give a little stiffness.  Even with all those layers, I used a light weight stabilizer.  Stitches bunched on the back without the stabilizer.  
     For the chick, I did use some light weight terry cloth I had and used 2 layers of padding in between to give some stiffness.
    I don't know what the fabric is that I use for padding.  I found a bolt of it at a yard sale.

         While they are not being played with, they stay in their little "grassy" pocket.  
        Can you guess what is on the back of this page?

Be sure to check out the Easter Basket Page as well.

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Sharing at several Linky Parties.

Thanks to the FREE programs:

possibly used for this post

GIMP for cropping & other digital effects

 Photoscape for downsizing & watermarking photo

PicMonkey creating collages used on this page