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Use a patchwork of your favourite fabrics to make Cheryl Owen’s dainty mummy deer. Sew up a matching baby in coordinating prints and you’ll have a darling pair to bedeck the home with this Christmas time. Why not give as gifts to friends and family, and complete with a daddy deer, too?
Stitch a mummy deer
NOTE: Use a 6mm seam allowance, unless otherwise stated
To create the patchwork, cut eight 7.5cm squares from pink fabrics, plus eight mustard ones, and six 7.5cm squares from turquoise patterned fabric. Referring to the layout diagram, place 11 patches right side up. Stitch the first, second and third rows, as shown. Press the seams of the first and third towards the right, and the second row towards the left.
Pin and stitch the bottom of the first row to the top of the second row, then stitch the bottom of the second row to the top of the third row. Sew the patches of the fourth row to the bottom of the third row. Press the seams downwards. Repeat with the other 11 squares, to make a mirror image of the first. Press the seams upwards.
Download and print the templates. Use to cut out the following: one pair of mummy deer bodies from the patchwork fabric, matching the broken lines to the seams. Cut two gussets and one pair of ears from turquoise patterned fabric. Trim another pair of ears from a mustard print, plus two pairs of antlers from another mustard fabric. Trim two tails from pink.
Referring to the templates, draw the eyes
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