D is for Dock

Materials:

• Royal blue background (duck canvas 10.5"x12")
• Gray or brown felt - for dock
• Felt scraps of various colors
• Various colors of embroidery thread
• Velcro
• Iron-on letter "D"
• Black embroidery thread

The original design

 This page will be focusing on matching shapes.  The child will be able to move the various shapes around the page and velcro them down to the correct spot to complete the picture of the dock.  The shapes will be stored along the top of the page where the "sidewalk" is.  There will be outlines of the shapes in embroidery thread throughout the picture of the dock.  When the shapes are placed in the correct spot, they will complete the object that was missing (for example, the circle will go on the lamppost to be the light at the top).

 This time I decided to start this page by ironing on the letter "D" and stitching "ock" using black embroidery thread and the chain stitch.  I wanted to add the word first to see how much space I had left for the sidewalk and dock.

Once I had the word at the top I sized the sidewalk and dock, created patterns, cut them both out and sewed them on.

Next I created the shapes and pieces that make up the details on the dock including the boat, lamppost, bench, tube and tackle box.  (I made sure that all of the shapes fit together across the sidewalk since that's where they'll be stored.)  I sewed down the bench, boat and lamppost pieces as a part of the background.

After that, I made duplicates of all of the shapes to attach the velcro to (so the seam doesn't show on the front).  I sewed the velcro on and then sewed the matching shape pieces together. 

I also sewed the velcro pieces to the background - five across the sidewalk (one for each shape to be stored) and one in each of the places the shapes belong in the picture.

 Last I embroidered around where the shapes are supposed to go in the same color of each, and added a few details here and there.  Finished!