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Sheet - Felt chickens and eggs
Felt chickens and eggs
Age: 6 and over (adult supervision required) | Difficulty: ★★★ | Time needed: 1 hour
Material
You need:
- leaves of adhesive fabric
- hank of matt-finish embroidery thread
- needles
- decorative buttons
- cotton
- scissors
- black marker pen
- template (downloadable pdf)
Steps
Felt egg
- Cut the egg template to shape and trace the outline on one half of a sheet of felt foam.
- Fold the sheet in half and cut around the outline to obtain two identical shapes.
- Cut several lengths of adhesive fabric ribbon into bands and stick them onto one of the shapes.
- Place the two shapes back to back and sew them together leaving a thumb-width gap in the seam.
- Stuff the egg lightly with cotton wool.
- Finish sewing the seam.
- Stick decorative buttons to the bands using fabric glue.
Felt chicken
- Cut the chicken template to shape and trace the outline on one half of a sheet of felt foam. Fold the sheet in half and cut around the outline to obtain two identical chicken body shapes.
- Cut out the two wing shapes from a sheet of adhesive fabric and glue them onto both halves of the body.
- Cut out a beak-shaped piece of felt foam.
- Sew a pearl onto each half of the body where the eye goes.
- Place the two body shapes back to back and sew them together leaving a thumb-width gap in the seam.
- Pad the body out with cotton wool between the two halves.
- Sew the beak on and finish the seam, letting the pearl sewing thread trail outside for use as a hanger.
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