Please Read All Instructions first before starting.
Supplies:
Fabric of your choice for front & back
Tear-a-way or Vilene wash-a-way
Threads
Cotton Batting(optional)
Temp. Spray adhesive(I use KK2000)
BABY
Color 1 – placement stitch
After stitching placement stitch, spray stabilizer lightly with temp spray, place cotton batting over stitching then spray cotton batting and lay fabric over top of batting.
Color 2 – tack down fabric & batting to stabilizer.
Remove hoop from machine and trim around stitching being careful no to cut threads. Return hoop to machine.
Color 3 – zig-zag stitch over edges.
Color 4 – star
Color 5 – pacifier
Color 6 – ring on pacifier
Color 7 – letter y
Color 8 – letter b
Color 9 – letter a
Color 10 – letter a
Color 11 – letter B
Color 12 – spots on y
Color 13 - spots on B
Color 14 – stars on b
Color 15 – star eyes
After stitching color change 15 remove hoop and spray back of hoop with temp spray and place back fabric over all stitching, return hoop to machine and stitch next color.
Color 16 – Connects back fabric to front of fabric.
After stitching color 16 remove hoop and trim fabric close to stitching. Return hoop to machine.
Color 17 – zig-zag.
Color 18 – Button holes
Color 19 – Satin Stitch
You are finished, remove book page from hoop.
BEE
Color 1 – placement stitch
After stitching placement stitch, spray stabilizer lightly with temp spray, place cotton batting over stitching then spray cotton batting and lay fabric over top of batting.
Color 2 – tack down fabric & batting to stabilizer.
Remove hoop from machine and trim around stitching being careful no to cut threads. Return hoop to machine.
Color 3 – zig-zag stitch over edges.
Color 4 – letter e
Color 5 – letter e
Color 6 – letter e
Color 7 – letter B
Color 8 – letter B
Color 9 – Bee body
Color 10 – Bee body
Color 11 – Bee head
Color 12 – wings
Color 13 - wings
Color 14 – cheeks
Color 15 – black eyes & outlines(I use a dark brown as it softens the look)
After stitching color change 15 remove hoop and spray back of hoop with temp spray and place back fabric over all stitching, return hoop to machine and stitch next color.
Color 16 – Connects back fabric to front of fabric.
After stitching color 16 remove hoop and trim fabric close to stitching. Return hoop to machine.
Color 17 – zig-zag.
Color 18 – Button holes
Color 19 – Satin Stitch
You are finished, remove book page from hoop.
BIRD
Color 1 – placement stitch
After stitching placement stitch, spray stabilizer lightly with temp spray, place cotton batting over stitching then spray cotton batting and lay fabric over top of batting.
Color 2 – tack down fabric & batting to stabilizer.
Remove hoop from machine and trim around stitching being careful no to cut threads. Return hoop to machine.
Color 3 – zig-zag stitch over edges.
Color 4 – lettering
Color 5 – lettering
Color 6 – chick
Color 7 – egg
Color 8 – beak
Color 9 – shaded area of egg
Color 10 – high lite spots of egg
Color 11 – black outline(I like to use a dark brown, as it soften the look)
After stitching color change remove hoop and spray back of hoop with temp spray and place back fabric over all stitching, return hoop to machine and stitch next color.
Color 12 – Connects back fabric to front of fabric.
After stitching color 16 remove hoop and trim fabric close to stitching. Return hoop to machine.
Color 13 – zig-zag.
Color 14 – Button holes
Color 15 – Satin Stitch
You are finished, remove book page from hoop.
FRONT
Color 1 – placement stitch
After stitching placement stitch, spray stabilizer lightly with temp spray, place cotton batting over stitching then spray cotton batting and lay fabric over top of batting.
Color 2 – tack down fabric & batting to stabilizer.
Remove hoop from machine and trim around stitching being careful no to cut threads. Return hoop to machine.
Color 3 – zig-zag stitch over edges.
Color 4 – lettering
Color 5 – lettering
Color 6 – lettering
After stitching remove hoop and spray back of hoop with temp spray and place back fabric over all stitching, return hoop to machine and stitch next color.
Color 7 – Connects back fabric to front of fabric.
After stitching color 16 remove hoop and trim fabric close to stitching. Return hoop to machine.
Color 8 – zig-zag.
Color 9 – Button holes
Color 10 – Satin Stitch
You are finished, remove book page from hoop.
MILK
Color 1 – placement stitch
After stitching placement stitch, spray stabilizer lightly with temp spray, place cotton batting over stitching then spray cotton batting and lay fabric over top of batting.
Color 2 – tack down fabric & batting to stabilizer.
Remove hoop from machine and trim around stitching being careful no to cut threads. Return hoop to machine.
Color 3 – zig-zag stitch over edges.
Color 4 – lettering
Color 5 – lettering
Color 6 – milk bottle
Color 7 – milk bottle shading
Color 8 – spilled milk shading
Color 9 – spilled milk
Color 10 – black outline(I like to use a dark brown, as it soften the look)
After stitching color change remove hoop and spray back of hoop with temp spray and place back fabric over all stitching, return hoop to machine and stitch next color.
Color 11 – Connects back fabric to front of fabric.
After stitching color 16 remove hoop and trim fabric close to stitching. Return hoop to machine.
Color 12 – zig-zag.
Color 13 – Button holes
Color 14 – Satin Stitch
You are finished, remove book page from hoop.
MOON
Color 1 – placement stitch
After stitching placement stitch, spray stabilizer lightly with temp spray, place cotton batting over stitching then spray cotton batting and lay fabric over top of batting.
Color 2 – tack down fabric & batting to stabilizer.
Remove hoop from machine and trim around stitching being careful no to cut threads. Return hoop to machine.
Color 3 – zig-zag stitch over edges.
Color 4 – lettering
Color 5 – lettering
Color 6 – moon shading
Color 7 – moon
Color 8 – star
Color 9 – moon cheeks
Color 10 – black outline(I like to use a dark brown, as it soften the look)
After stitching color change remove hoop and spray back of hoop with temp spray and place back fabric over all stitching, return hoop to machine and stitch next color.
Color 11 – Connects back fabric to front of fabric.
After stitching color 16 remove hoop and trim fabric close to stitching. Return hoop to machine.
Color 12 – zig-zag.
Color 13 – Button holes
Color 14 – Satin Stitch
You are finished, remove book page from hoop.
SOAP
Color 1 – placement stitch
After stitching placement stitch, spray stabilizer lightly with temp spray, place cotton batting over stitching then spray cotton batting and lay fabric over top of batting.
Color 2 – tack down fabric & batting to stabilizer.
Remove hoop from machine and trim around stitching being careful no to cut threads. Return hoop to machine.
Color 3 – zig-zag stitch over edges.
Color 4 – s & p letter shading
Color 5 – a letter shading, bubbles
Color 6 – a letter
Color 7 – s & p letter
Color 8 – bubble high light
Color 9 – o center
Color 10 – o shaded center
Color 11 – o letter
Color 12 – o letter high light
Color 13 – o letter shading
After stitching color change remove hoop and spray back of hoop with temp spray and place back fabric over all stitching, return hoop to machine and stitch next color.
Color 14 – Connects back fabric to front of fabric.
After stitching color 16 remove hoop and trim fabric close to stitching. Return hoop to machine.
Color 15 – zig-zag.
Color 16 – Button holes
Color 17 – Satin Stitch
You are finished, remove book page from hoop.
STAR
Color 1 – placement stitch
After stitching placement stitch, spray stabilizer lightly with temp spray, place cotton batting over stitching then spray cotton batting and lay fabric over top of batting.
Color 2 – tack down fabric & batting to stabilizer.
Remove hoop from machine and trim around stitching being careful no to cut threads. Return hoop to machine.
Color 3 – zig-zag stitch over edges.
Color 4 – star shading
Color 5 – star
Color 6 – s & a letter shading
Color 7 – t & r lettering
Color 8 – s & a lettering
Color 9 – t & r letter shading
Color 10 – star cheeks
Color 11 – eyes & outline
Color 12 – spots
Color 13 - spots
Color 14 – spots
After stitching remove hoop and spray back of hoop with temp spray and place back fabric over all stitching, return hoop to machine and stitch next color.
Color 15 – Connects back fabric to front of fabric.
After stitching color 16 remove hoop and trim fabric close to stitching. Return hoop to machine.
Color 16 – zig-zag.
Color 17 – Button holes
Color 18 – Satin Stitch
You are finished, remove book page from hoop.
SUN
Color 1 – placement stitch
After stitching placement stitch, spray stabilizer lightly with temp spray, place cotton batting over stitching then spray cotton batting and lay fabric over top of batting.
Color 2 – tack down fabric & batting to stabilizer.
Remove hoop from machine and trim around stitching being careful no to cut threads. Return hoop to machine.
Color 3 – zig-zag stitch over edges.
Color 4 – sun face
Color 5 – cheeks & rays
Color 6 – outer rays
Color 7 – letter S
Color 8 – letter U
Color 9 – letter N
Color 10 – high lights on letters
Color 11 – eyes & outline
After stitching remove hoop and spray back of hoop with temp spray and place back fabric over all stitching, return hoop to machine and stitch next color.
Color 12 – Connects back fabric to front of fabric.
After stitching color 16 remove hoop and trim fabric close to stitching. Return hoop to machine.
Color 13 – zig-zag.
Color 14 – Button holes
Color 15 – Satin Stitch
You are finished, remove book page from hoop.
TOYS
Color 1 – placement stitch
After stitching placement stitch, spray stabilizer lightly with temp spray, place cotton batting over stitching then spray cotton batting and lay fabric over top of batting.
Color 2 – tack down fabric & batting to stabilizer.
Remove hoop from machine and trim around stitching being careful no to cut threads. Return hoop to machine.
Color 3 – zig-zag stitch over edges.
Color 4 – ball
Color 5 – duck bill
Color 6 – shading on duck and ball
Color 7 – duck & ball
Color 8 – letter y & t shading
Color 9 – letter y & t
Color 10 – letter t
Color 11 – letter t bottom shading
Color 12 – cheeks
Color 13 - eyes & outlines
After stitching remove hoop and spray back of hoop with temp spray and place back fabric over all stitching, return hoop to machine and stitch next color.
Color 14 – Connects back fabric to front of fabric.
After stitching color 16 remove hoop and trim fabric close to stitching. Return hoop to machine.
Color 15 – zig-zag.
Color 16 – Button holes
Color 17 – Satin Stitch
You are finished, remove book page from hoop.
To use one side of book as a back page all you need to do is skip the last 4 color changes, when you remove it from your hoop trim just out side the edge stitching as this will help as a guide for lining it up.
You will then insert design and finish off the page where you place the back.
I used gross grain ribbon to attach the pages. You can use what you like.
Hope you enjoy!
Bonnie
www.stitchartdesigns.com
Thanks so much for the instructions! I didn’t want to start this set without them and this is such a darling book. Love these project sets!!!
Thank you. Could you please tell me where the instructions are for your Door Hangers? I purchased the design set, but no instructions were attached. I searched the instructions you have posted and they are not there either. HELP!
[Hi, I just put them online:
http://articles.designsbysick.com/door-hangers/
Hope this helps!
Rob
Editor]
Are the pages suppose to have pictures on only one side?
I guess I don’t fully understand how to open up different parts of the same design and get them to match up in the hoop. These instructions are great for designs that are all in one file, but the designs I got are broken down into lots of different files. Am I just not getting the concept? Please Help. Thanks, Teresa
is anyone having as much trouble with the baby book as I am?? The pages do not stitch out the way they are pictured in the set on the home page.
Thank you much for the instructions.
Could you tell me where the picture of your book is???????? I would love to make one for my new grandbaby coming…This is excatly what I would like to do. Thanks Bonnie
me to seems hard to understand please can have a pic of the back and front and inside to see how it all gose together tyty so much from shielabryant hugs and love peace
Ladies,
Hope all of you that are having trouble read this.
Some have downloaded the SEW format, sorry but you can’t use the files as such due to them not being able to be converted right to the sew format. I have inquired about doing a set for that for format.
As for the back of the page, you can use a colorful fabric for the the back or if you stitch out one of the sides and skip the last 4 color changes you can then use this side for a back. Insert it for the back.
Oops–just found these instructions–I,too am going to be a new g’maw–can’t wait to get this cutie of a book done for our little Abigail–I tried one page w/out the instructions–no go–I’m a newbie at this–love your designs, Bonnie–wish me luck with them all especially this one–thanks again–I’m enjoying this new exp.sort of,ha!–Steph
Bonnie–have been learning to applique–and doing great with your book–however I’m on the TOYS page and there were no stitch around the design lines to hold batting and fabric to stabilizer like the others–in other words it went straight from placement line to the first design(ball)–I’m not quite through, but what I did was skip back and use the placement line to hold batting and fabric to hoop, then I went ahead and started stitching the ball–any suggestions–I’ve tried everything I could think of–apparantly it just was left out–other than that, I love this cutie and it is my first project for my first grand to be born in March–this was just a sampler I did to learn applique–thanks so much for all your hard digitizing–I got the membership and all your designs–and I’m headed to StitchArt Designs for more as soon as I can get there–Steph.
I am thinking of doing this book also for a baby gift but wonder if it would be easier to do two pages (front and back) and sew them together on three sides then stuff it with a plastic grocery sack to make it a crinkly sound.
Then go around it in a narrow seam. When you get each of the pages together, connect them with ribbon as she did. I will have to play around with it and see what works
your designs are the very best
i love them
i would like to send in some of my projects that i have created with your beautiful free designs but don’t know how to go about doing it.
i also need help downloading the free daily designs
don’t know how to sign in for the forum.
It’s me again–4 Baby Books later–and I just love this project–am giving as gifts for those I work with who need baby gifts or am giving as baby gift. I have a little trick that gives the book the crinkly sound when you touch the pages–I use a piece of cellophane, you know the type you use to wrap gift baskets or fruit baskets. You can get it in the craft setions of most stores-. I put it in when you put the back piece of fabric on at the end of each design. Cut it a little bit bigger than the appligue design, but make sure the piece of fabric is bigger so it will stick to the back after you spray the adhesive on. Try this and I’m sure you’ll like the effect! Thanks again, Bonnie for a great project.
I love this baby book project, but I need to print it so I can have it at my machine. Can anyone tell me how to print the instructions?
[editor's note: Check your email, I sent them to you. For all others, you can
hold Control, and type "A" , tehn hold control and type "c"
then open up a notepad or Word document, click on the page and hold Control and click "v"
rob
Editor]