THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT

MATERIALS

• 20 x 30cm (8 x 12in) brown velour fabric (nap running parallel to the 20cm/8in edge) (owl’s body)

• 20cm (8in) square of brown tone-on-tone print fabric (owl’s tummy)

• Two 30cm (12in) squares of grey wool felt (pussycat)

• 10cm (4in) squares of wool felt in orange, white, light brown, gold and light pink

• 15cm (6in) square of red wool felt (guitar)

• 20cm (8in) square of dark brown wool felt (owl’s wings)

• Stranded embroidery floss to match the colours of the wool felt and dark yellow

• 20cm ( 1/4yd) each of khaki wool felt, green print fabric and very stiff fusible interfacing (boat)

• Fibre fill

• Two 10mm ( 3/8in) black safety eyes

• Stiff paper (patterns)

• Freezer paper and tracing paper

• Template plastic and permanent-marking pen

• Chopstick or turning tool

• Skewer and large drinking straw (optional)

• Sharp 4B pencil

• Water- or air-erasable fabric-marking pen

• Rotary cutter, ruler and mat

• Sewing machine

• General sewing supplies

Hand stitches used:

Backstitch, blanket stitch, ladder stitch, satin stitch, straight stitch, whip stitch