Ellie has a cousin, Luke, who was born three and a half months after her.  I decided to make them both color books!  This was the third year in a row that I have made these books.  Two years ago, I made Luke’s brother Alex a book.  Last year, I made Kaitlyn and Grace books but modified the design slightly.  This year, I completely redid the design and am really proud of what I created!

I decided to use solids as well as prints and used the foundation-piecing method (with muslin) to create the pages themselves.  At the “turning corner” of each page, I used some geometry (namely using the radii of circles) to sew in a quarter circle of the color of the page. I also interfaced the solid so that it feels a bit more substantial when turning the page.

From front to back:

That’s blue and orange for Nik (UVA)

and purple and yellow [gold] for me (Houghton).

I also used the solids for the front and back covers.  For the front cover, I sewed together some of the quarter circles that I’d cut out of the main pages to form a full circle.  I also embroidered titles and “author” notes:

And here they are in action!

I loved designing and making these!