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Show your sophisticated side by providing fabric fortune cookies and beautiful Oriental-inspired fan coasters for Chinese New Year celebrations or at your next dinner party. Impress your friends and add some fun by writing your own fortunes and seeing who gets what! We've used an array of Eastern-inspired fabric prints for our Oriental decorations and brought out their detail by using striking black sewing thread.
Sew a Fortune Cookie
Cut a circle with a 9.5cm diameter from coloured felt using pinking shears, and one with a 8.5cm diameter from printed fabric using standard scissors. Stick the fabric onto the felt with acid-free glue, making sure to go right to the edges to minimise fraying.
Allow to dry, then stitch all the way around, just in from the edge of the fabric. Fold the completed circle in half with the fabric on the inside. Stitch from the centre of the folded edge towards the middle of the curved edge by 2cm.
To fold the cookie into its finished shape, hold it with the folded edge pointing away from you. Put your thumbs inside and fold each side up into the centre, then
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