Felt Egg Design Book

This simple felt book

encourage creative design—
Instructions;
from traditional egg designs
to a bunch of egghead faces 1. Print the templates on pages 5-8 and cut out. Tape book cover
to egg-shaped animals— template pieces 1 and 2 together where indicated.
your creativity is the limit.

Supplies: 2. Pin the cover template to the cotton fabric you selected for the cover
3 sheets double-sided fusible
web
and cut out. Repeat with the felt you selected to line the cover. Set
14x11” Piece of white felt aside.
12x8” Piece of cotton fabric
10x8” Piece of colored felt 3. Pin the pocket template to the felt you selected for the pocket, and cut
(for pocket)
4 different colors of felt, 5x4 out. Using a marker with disappearing ink, mark the dotted lines
inches each (for eggs) indicated on your pattern onto your felt.
1 small shank-style button
4” Piece of thin elastic cord

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Small pieces of felt in an
array of colors (scraps work
well)
Thread to match
15-inch piece of ½-inch-wide
bias-trim

Tools:
Sewing machine
Scissors
Iron
Pins and a needle
Disappearing ink marker 4. Pin the felt pocket piece onto the felt cover piece where indicated on the
Paper punch
Optional: Variety of paper cover template. Sew the pocket piece to the felt cover piece, stitching
punches, bias trim-maker, along the lines you marked on the felt pocket.
pinking scissors, etc

Project URL with photos:

http://chezbeeperbebe.blog
Stitch
3.3 inches along
spot.com/2010/03/tutorial-
and-pattern-felt-egg- the
design.html lines
you
marked
This Felt Egg Design Book and its
instructions were created by Holly Keller
only
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
6 inches
your own book for you or for gifts. Happy
crafting!

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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.

Zigzag around
Position eggs on the edge of
each page as each egg
shown—only 2
eggs per page,
got it?

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 You should have a fusible web
(wrong-side up) sandwich here—cotton fabric
cover piece and felt cover piece
Fusible web with a piece of fusible web in
between. Don’t try to eat it, no
Felt cover piece 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).
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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 making-
device. I made mine from a contrasting fabric to add some additional color to the
cover.

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 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