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Every cat lover can identify with this fun cushion! Free Pattern and Tutorial.
Size: 16 square
REQUIREMENTS
– Fat quarter blue or rust – background
– 75cm Yellow or orange
– 50cm Black
– Assorted scraps – cat colours
– Scrap green and pink – cat features
– 50cm Fusible web e.g. Bondaweb
– Black or white embroidery thread
– 18″ Square wadding
– 10cm Iron on interfacing
– Tracing paper
– 3 buttons
– 16″ square cushion pad
DOWNLOAD PDF PATTERN Cat Cushion appliqué template
CUTTING
1. From yellow or orange cut:
two, 12″ x 16½” rectangles,
one, 12½” square,
two, 1½” x 12½” strips,
two, 1½” x 14½” strips.
2. From black cut:
two, 2¼” strips,
two, 1½” strips sub cut into:
two, 1½” x 16½” strips,
two, 1½” x 14½” strips.
3. From iron on interfacing cut:
two, 2″ x 16″ strips.
PREPARATION
1a. Take blue or rust fat quarter and measure and mark a point 9″ down from top left corner.
b. Using your cutting ruler, cut a line at 45° from marked point to top edge of fabric, dia. 1a.
c. Working from this cut edge, measure and cut out one, 12½” square to make one bias cut 12½” square, dia. 1b.
2a. Trace outline of cat given full size on page 65 onto tracing paper.
b. Turn tracing over and redraw over solid lines with a marker pen.
3. Trace reversed cat outline onto bias cut square so that outline is approx. 1¾” from top edge, dia. 2.
FUSIBLE APPLIQUÉ
1a. Trace cat appliqué pieces given full size on page 65 onto paper side of fusible web and cut out roughly.
b. Following manufacturer’s instructions, iron fusible web pieces to wrong side of cat fabrics.
c. Cut out pieces carefully on lines.
2a. Carefully remove paper backings and position hind leg and tail, followed by cat body and head onto bias cut square.
b. When happy with their positions, fuse pieces in place.
3. Appliqué raw edges of pieces with zigzag or buttonhole stitch, illust. 1.
4a. Using scraps of green, black and pink, make cat’s eyes and nose and add to face.
b. Using embroidery thread, embroider cat’s mouth and whiskers, illust. 2.
FABRIC MANIPULATION
1. The method I have used is slightly adapted from a type of fabric manipulation that I saw in Ruth Singer’s book ‘Fabric Manipulation’.
2a. Mark vertical lines down from each side of cat’s paws. Each pair of parallel lines should be approx. 1¼” apart.
b. Mark horizontal lines ½” apart between each pair of vertical lines, dia. 3a.
c. You should have nine rows of lines.
3. With sharp pointed scissors, make a small slit on each horizontal line, dia. 3b.
4a. Take 12½” yellow or orange square and lay it on top of 18″ wadding square.
b. Place appliquéd cat square on top, right side up.
c. Pin or tack layers.
5a. Quilt marked vertical lines below cat’s paws.
b. Mark and stitch horizontal lines ¼” above and below each slit. Once you have stitched all the lines, you might want to widen the slits a little so they fit between the vertical lines of stitching, dia. 4 and illust. 3.
6. Starting at bottom edge, stitch between each pair of vertical lines. As you stitch, fold back top part of each slit, illust. 4.
ASSEMBLY
Use ¼” seam allowance
1a. Stitch and flip 1½” x 12½” yellow or orange strips to opposite sides of cat centre.
b. Add 1½” x 14½” yellow or orange strips to top and bottom edges in same way.
c. You may need to adjust measurements if cat centre has shrunk slightly after stitching.
2a. Add 1½” x 14½” and 1½” x 16½” black strips in similar manner.
b. Trim excess wadding.
3a. Take 2″ x 16″ interfacing strips and following manufacturer’s instructions, iron one strip onto wrong side along one long edge of each 12″ x 16½” yellow or orange rectangle.
b. Fold edge over so that interfacing is enclosed, and press.
c. Snip a notch 8¼” along top and bottom edges of each rectangle measuring from edge of fabric without interfacing.
4a. Find midpoint on folded edge of one rectangle and make a buttonhole ½” in from folded edge.
b. Make further two buttonholes 4″ each side of centre buttonhole.
5a. Place second back rectangle underneath buttonhole rectangle, matching snips on top and bottom edges.
b. Stitch pieces together across folds inside seam allowance, dia. 5.
6. Add buttons onto bottom back rectangle so they match buttonholes, illust. 5.
7. Place cushion back and front wrong sides together and stitch around all four edges.
8. Double bind edges with 2¼” black strips, illust. 6.
9. Insert cushion pad.
Enjoy!
