Here is a little tutorial for an apple to dangle from your lunch bag, or to use as a pincushion.
Requirements:
Small pieces of cotton fabric - apple coloured, or printed
tiny piece of fabric for leaf
tiny piece of heat n bond for leaf
14inch length of quarter inch wide ribbon
stuffing
sewing machine - or can be hand sewn
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| Draw your pattern using these measurements, the apple pattern needs to be more pointy than rounded! Add quarter inch seam allowance to apple pattern |
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| Put fabric with right sides together, pin ribbon to end of apple. |
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| Stitch around, with 1/4 inch seam. sew backward and forwards over ribbon. |
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| Turn right side out. Turn top under 1/4 inch. Run gathering stitches with double thread around the top, keep needle attached. |
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| Stuff firmly, keeping ribbon in centre of apple. Pull up gathering stitches tightly......... |
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..........pull on ribbon to pull up base of apple.
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| Push top of apple in and fasten off (bind off) thread and stitch through ribbon to keep in place (Don't cut it off yet, keep needle attached) | | | | | |
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| Make leaf. Draw leaf shape onto heat n bond. Iron heat n bond to wrong side of leaf fabric, then fold with right sides together |
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| Stitch around leaf twice then trim away excess fabric. |
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| Cut off ends and snip seam allowance, take care not to cut the stitches. |
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| Make cut in fabric that does not have heat n bond attached. Remove backing fabric from heat n bond. |
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| Turn right sides out, then iron flat. The cut is the back of the leaf. |
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| Stitch leaf veins on side that didn't have cut - you could do this by hand |
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| Attach leaf to top of apple with gathering thread, then cut off thread. |
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| Dangle your apple from your lunch bag - a great way to remind everyone to get their 5 a day! |
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| Apple print fabric is lovely. You could just cut a leaf from felt to the size of the pattern |
Angel Policy: you can make as many as you like for gifts or to sell for charity, but please don't sell them or the pattern. Thank you. Cottonconfetti.co.uk
