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Pamper your feline with a Cat Igloo. Treat your furry friend to this soft and cosy igloo from designer Cheryl Owens – the ultimate hideaway for a quick catnap or a quiet moment alone. Once naptime is over, use the matching fish toy to lure your kitty out for a playtime session. The opening of this project is tailored for a small cat or kitten, so if you need to size up and make a larger igloo, simply cut out a 40cm diameter circle for the base and snip the base edge of the igloo to 15cm.
Make an igloo
Download and print the templates from sewmag.co.uk. Copy the igloo template onto folded tracing paper, matching the ‘place to the fold lines’ to the fold. Mark the circle and arrow, then draw a 35cm diameter circle on tracing paper for the base template. Cut out the templates and open them out flat. Snip out two pairs of igloos and one base from blue and grey fabric and fusible fleece. Trim one bias strip from blue fabric for the binding, 7cm x 1.1m. Cut one base from low-loft fusible fleece and heavyweight fusible interfacing.
Draw the circle on the wrong side of one grey igloo with a pencil. Fold the fabric bases into quarters, snip the divisions then out flat again. Press the blue igloos to the fusible fleece pieces. Press the blue base to the heavyweight fusible interfacing base. Press the grey base to the fusible fleece base. Stitch the blue igloos together in pairs along one long edge. Snip the curves and press the seams open. Pin the four blue igloos together. Sew the long edge, matching the seams. Trim the curves and press the seam open. Repeat with the grey igloos.
Slip the blue igloo inside the grey igloo. Pin together, matching seam
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