Felt Egg Design Book This simple felt book encourage creative design— from traditional egg designs to a bunch of egghead faces to egg-shaped animals— your creativity is the limit.

Instructions;

Supplies: 3 sheets double-sided fusible web 14x11” Piece of white felt 12x8” Piece of cotton fabric 10x8” Piece of colored felt (for pocket) 4 different colors of felt, 5x4 inches each (for eggs) 1 small shank-style button 4” Piece of thin elastic cord Small pieces of felt in an array of colors (scraps work well) Thread to match 15-inch piece of ½-inch-wide bias-trim

2. Pin the cover template to the cotton fabric you selected for the cover and cut out. Repeat with the felt you selected to line the cover. Set aside.

Tools: Sewing machine Scissors Iron Pins and a needle Disappearing ink marker Paper punch Optional: Variety of paper punches, bias trim-maker, pinking scissors, etc

1. Print the templates on pages 5-8 and cut out. Tape book cover template pieces 1 and 2 together where indicated.

3. Pin the pocket template to the felt you selected for the pocket, and cut out. Using a marker with disappearing ink, mark the dotted lines indicated on your pattern onto your felt.

 4. Pin the felt pocket piece onto the felt cover piece where indicated on the cover template. Sew the pocket piece to the felt cover piece, stitching along the lines you marked on the felt pocket.

Project URL with photos: http://chezbeeperbebe.blog spot.com/2010/03/tutorialand-pattern-felt-eggdesign.html This Felt Egg Design Book and its instructions were created by Holly Keller of Beeper Bébé. It is intended for personal use and may not be reproduced, copied, or re-used without permission from Holly Keller/ Beeper Bébé. That said, please do use the instructions to make your own book for you or for gifts. Happy crafting!

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3.3 inches

Stitch along the lines you marked only

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5. Pin the book pages template to 2 layers of felt and cut out. 6. Using a marker with disappearing ink marker, trace around the egg template onto the 4 colors of felt you selected. Cut these out. Pin 2 to one-side of one of your felt pages, and pin the other 2 to one-side of your other felt page. Zigzag around the edge of each egg using thread matched to the egg’s color.

Position eggs on each page as shown—only 2 eggs per page, got it?

Zigzag around the edge of each egg

7. Trace the cover template onto your fusible web (you will need to use two pieces if yor fusible web is standard page size—so you will have the two pieces that when placed together make the whole cover). Trace the book page template onto another sheet of fusible web. Cut all of these out. 8. Determine which side of the page is stuck to the fusible web--peel the paper away that is not stuck to the web. Lay the side with the exposed fusible web to the wrong-side of cotton fabric cover piece, and to one of the felt pages (to the side that does not have the eggs sewn to it). Peel the remaining piece of paper away on both pieces and stick the felt cover to the cotton fabric cover piece (pocket side facing out), and the other felt page to its matching felt page (eggs facing out on each page, so you can see them). Ensure all edges are cleanly matched up (trim any excess or uneven edges). Cotton fabric cover piece (wrong-side up) Fusible web Felt cover piece

You should have a fusible web sandwich here—cotton fabric cover piece and felt cover piece with a piece of fusible web in between. Don’t try to eat it, no matter how good it looks—it won’t taste good

9. Following the instructions on your fusible web, iron your cover pieces together so they are well-adhered to one another (because felt is heavier weight, you may need to iron a bit longer than instructed in order to securely fuse all the layers together). 2

10. Folding your felt pocket along the seams where attached to the cover, press the folds into place 11. Knot your elastic string into a loop. Sew this onto the inside edge of the top flap of the felt pocket, where indicated on the template. Sew the button onto outside of the bottom flap so the elastic loop will loop securely around it.

Your completed pocket should look like this when folded and closed up

12. Sew around the entire edge of your cover, ¼-inch from the edge of the cover. Now sew around the entire edge of your book pages, ¼-inch from the edges. This is just extra insurance that your layers will stay together in case the fusible web fails you—and it also looks pretty and tidy, in my opinion. Sew around edge of pages (and the cover)

13. Sew the fused pages into the cover, sewing along the mid-point of the pages (as indicated on the template), and attaching them into the cover as indicated on the cover template.

Cover Pages

14. Fold your half-inch bias trim in half and sew down one edge (so it now forms a ¼-inch wide string). Note: You can make your own if you have a ½-inch bias trim makingdevice. I made mine from a contrasting fabric to add some additional color to the cover. 3

Sew one end of the bias-trim string to the inside edge of the book cover (sew to the end of the cover that will fold over the top of the book once completed), where indicated on the cover template. Your completed book, once all closed up, should look like this—for your sake, I hope it does.

15. Okay—take a deep breath, because you are very almost done. Not you need only cut out an array of shapes in various colors of felt. I cut out triangles, stripes, dots, small dots were punched with the help of a paper-hole punch (several in black to form eyes). I also made little bitty moustache-like shapes, some-feather-like shapes, horn shapes. and made some half-size dots to form eyelids and whatnot. Use a pinking scissors to create jagged edges for decorative strips of felt, or cut small pieces from white felt to make teeth…the possibilities are endless. Use your imagination (and your decorative paper punches) to get a good variety. Give the book to well-deserving child—or play with it yourself (just to test it out, mind you), creating all manner of kooky faces, simple animal forms, and easter egg designs. Watch the hours melt away as you obsessively make one more design, and then another (speaking from experience)—then begrudgingly hand it over to the kid you actually made it for. If you feel really proud of a particular design you created, take a photo and upload it to the Beeper Bebe Projects Flickr group to share your genius. You can find the Flickr group right here: http://www.flickr.com/groups/1273351@N21/ Really, please share. That’s all I ask in return for sharing this tutorial and its templates with you. I will feature some of the designs in a future post at Chez Beeper Bebe. Happy egg design creation!

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Book Cover Template (part 1) (cut 2: 1 from white felt, 1 from book cover fabric) (attach part 2 at tab to one end)

Sew book pages into place here

Sew pocket here

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attach this tab to part 1 of book cover template

Book Cover Template (part 2) attach bias-trim string here

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Egg Template (cut 4 from different colors of felt)

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Book Pages Template (cut 2 from white felt)

Sew book pages into the cover along this line

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Attach elastic loop here

Mark the dotted lines with water-soluable ink onto your felt.

Pocket Template (cut 1 from felt)

Attach button onto this flap

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