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don’t get trimmed off or sewn into the

seams. Fuse them in place.

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For the coffee cups, Cori ironed

fusible web to the wrong side of the

remaining coffee cup print backing fabric

and fussy cut two spotted cup shapes

• this explains why they are a slightly
  different shape from those on the Pattern
  Sheet. If you don’t have a suitable print
  fabric to do something similar, prepare
  two appliqué cup shapes from the Pattern
  Sheet in the usual way, stack them as
  shown and fuse them in position.

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Put the Pattern Sheet over a lightbox

or brightly lit window and position

the cushion front on top. Use the pencil or

erasable marker to trace the ‘better when

shared’ phrase. Draw the lines on the

‘Coffee’ letters, the handles on the coffee

cups and the steam above them by eye.

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Layer the calico square, batting

square and prepared cushion front,

all right side facing up, and pin baste the

layers together.

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Using two strands of dark brown

thread, stem stitch the lines on the

‘Coffee’ letters, scatter a few French knots

to the left of the C and stem stitch the

‘better when shared’ phrase. The rest of

the embroidery is done after the appliqué

and quilting.

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Drop (or cover) the feed dogs on your

machine and fi t the free-motion/

darning foot. Machine stitch just inside

the raw edges of each appliqué shape with

matching thread. When all the appliqué

shapes and letters are appliquéd in place,

use cream thread to quilt the background

• Cori did a swirly design in the open spaces
  on the cream background.

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Using two strands of tan thread,

stem stitch the steam rising from the

stacked cups and add a few starbursts in

radiating straight stitches. Use two strands

of dark brown thread to stem stitch the

handle on each coffee cup and the hemline

of the cream dress. Then stem stitch the fold

lines on the cream dress in two strands of

cream thread. Stem stitch the hemline and

fold lines on the red dress in two strands of

red thread. Cori’s stacked cups have red rims

in the printed design; you could stem stitch

red rims on your cups if desired.

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Trim the cushion front to measure

1611 ⁄ 2 in square, raw edge to raw edge.

The border strips should be level with the

edges of the cream fabric and the design

centred on the cream fabric. To acheive

this, Cori trimmed about^3 ⁄ 4 in from each edge.

Diagram 2

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26

31

32

28 29

25

30

27

20

22

24

23

8

9

10

11

5

6

7

12

18

13

17 19

14

15

(^55)
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Diagram 3
(^11)
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