Koselig Cushion Tutorial...
Easter Chick Egg Cosy Tutorial...
Here's a little something to help you create the perfect Easter breakfast table, so find your prettiest scraps and make a darling little chick to keep your eggs cosy, whether they're soft-boiled, hard-boiled or chocolate...
To make the 4” x 5½” egg cosy you will need...
1 Layer (10” square) of background fabric
1 Layer for the lining
1 1½” x 10” strip of pale yellow print
1 1½” x 5” scrap of bright yellow print
2 5” x 7” pieces of fusible cotton batting
2½” piece of ribbon
Embroidery floss
Please read through the pattern before you begin. Fabric is always placed right-sides-together and joined with a ¼” seam allowance unless otherwise noted. Please note that the additional fabric required for this project is not included in your block of the month kits.
Cutting out...
1. From the background 10” square cut as shown, right:-
2. From the lining fabric cut 2 4½” x 6” pieces.
3. From the pale yellow print fabric cut 1 1½” x 3” piece, 1 1½” x 2¼” piece, 1 1¼” x 2¼” piece and 1 1¼” square.
4. From the bright yellow fabric cut 1 1¼” x 2¼” piece and 1 ¾” square.
Piecing the chick...
5. To make the wing, join the 1¼” x 2¼” bright yellow print piece to the bottom of a 1½” x 2¼” pale yellow print piece, pressing as directed (>), then snowball the bottom left corner with a 1¼” pale yellow square.
Next, join a 1¼” x 2¼” pale yellow print piece to the bottom of the chick unit and a 1½” x 3” pale yellow piece to the left, before snow-balling the bottom left corner with a 1¼” background square.
To make the beak, snowball the top right corner of a1¼” x 3” background piece with a ¾” bright yellow print square, then join the beak to the left of the chick.
Finally, snowball the bottom right corner with a 1¼” background square, then the top right corner with a 2¼” background square.
6. Assemble the egg cosy front by joining a 1” x 3” background piece to the right, a 2¼” x 4½” background piece to the top and a 1¼” x 4½” background piece to the bottom, pressing away from the chick.
To make the egg cosy...
7. Fuse the batting to the wrong side and machine or hand quilt to make the Egg Cosy front.
8. Repeat step 7 with the 4½” x 5½” background piece to make the Egg Cosy back.
9. Join a 4½” x 6” lining piece to both the quilted front and the quilted back, pressing towards the lining.
10. Lay the back section right sides up and pin the folded ribbon – folded in half – at the centre of the top edge. Then place the front section on top, right sides down, and pin, marking an opening on one side of the lining.
11. Using the prepared template mark a curved line at all four corners, then sew around the perimeter ¼” inside the marked line REMEMBERING THE OPENING.
12. Turn the Egg Cosy right-sides out, finger pressing the seams open as you go.
13. Press lightly, then slip stitch the opening closed before pushing the lining into the quilted outer. Press around the bottom of the Egg Cosy.
If your nearest and dearest don't want chicks on their egg cosies - sad face - just cut two 'backs' to make a plain cosies.
Nicola xx