Tutorial and Pattern: Felt Egg Design Book

Come have a look at what is inside this little book...

I've been wanting to make some sort of little creative felt book for a while now, and then last week, in the middle of a completely unrelated meeting at my day job with some boring white guys in suits, I just started having all these ideas for new tutorials I could create around Easter and spring related themes. Not sure where the inspiration was in that scenario, but I came out of that meeting with a whole list of ideas scribbled in the margins of my notebook. So, this is the first in a couple more to come...

I had something sort of traditional in mind at first for this little egg design book, but then just found I loved making the kooky monster and character faces more than anything else...so the shapes I started cutting out from felt became more and more conducive to facial features rather than stripey and dotted eggs.

Whatever the case, I love the portability of this book and its open-ended creative potential using just basic felt shapes in a variety of colors. While I admit, it has taken me all week to really work out the end result you see here, the book really should come together quite easily. (don't let the 9 pages of instructions scare you--almost half are rectangular templates).

Here is the tutorial for you...

DOWNLOAD FELT BOOK TUTORIAL

Please take photos of any new and interesting egg designs you or your kiddos come up with and share them in my Beeper Bebe Project Flickr group--I would so love to see them. Just because I know you will come up with some good ones, and I want to share in the fun.

Happy felt book making.

(oh--and did I mention I will be putting the books you see here up in my Etsy shop? Well, I will, sometime later this weekend--and I have a couple extra I am making...so if you are too lazy to make your own, you can just buy your own--I got no judgments about that.)