{"id":2266,"date":"2012-07-17T08:45:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=2266"},"modified":"2012-07-04T23:18:24","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T04:18:24","slug":"busy-book-memory-flip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=2266","title":{"rendered":"busy book: memory flip"},"content":{"rendered":"

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inspired, in part, by the construction of this game<\/a>, i designed this “memory flip” page.\u00c2\u00a0 for the page for my nephews, i just made 9 squares and used photos of each of the cousins’ faces.\u00c2\u00a0 i made the middle square a heart since 9 is an odd number.<\/p>\n

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i sewed through the elastic when attaching the squares to the elastic and that means that the elastic twists whenever you flip the square.\u00c2\u00a0 i thought that might eventually lead to a problem (if a square gets twisted too many times in the same direction, for instance), so for the second page, i tried something a little different.<\/p>\n

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first of all, i used 16 slightly smaller squares (this may be a bit too crowded…) and i used a round elastic instead of flat.\u00c2\u00a0 then, i left a gap on either side of the elastic when stitching the fronts to the backs so that the squares could rotate freely.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>i stitched down the elastic to the background between each square.\u00c2\u00a0 i used another sheet of printable fabric to make the faces of faraway family members.\u00c2\u00a0 if you’d like to re-create this page more simply, you could easily stitch a felt shape (like a heart or a star) onto a square of felt instead of using the photo fabric.\u00c2\u00a0 if i were making the page a third time, i might try leaving a little extra wiggle room on the elastic to allow more room for flipping the square over.\u00c2\u00a0 if you’re looking for a source of round elastic, check out multi-packs of inexpensive elastic headbands.\u00c2\u00a0 you might even find fun colors!<\/p>\n

again, a rather fiddly page due to the skinny borders around each photo, but i do love the results!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

inspired, in part, by the construction of this game, i designed this “memory flip” page.\u00c2\u00a0 for the page for my nephews, i just made 9 squares and used photos of each of the cousins’ faces.\u00c2\u00a0 i made the middle square … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-busy-book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2267,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2266\/revisions\/2267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}