Cute Coffee Cup Cozies

Step 4 Cut out and assemble your pattern pieces

1. Cut out your pattern pieces, lay them on top of the wool felt fabric, and cut out your design including all pattern pieces in the design. Cut out two pieces of the background fabric, as two layers will be felted and sewn together to give the cup cozy extra stability.
 
2. Lay out your design on your background, and begin assembling your design.
 
3. For the Fox and Raccoon:
-Use your needle felt tool to attach the pieces by placing one felt pattern piece on top of the other, on top of the needle felting base (the brush-like thing in the photo) .Make sure the pattern pieces are in the correct position. Move the needle felting tool in short up/down motions to poke through both layers of felt until the layers have combined together and no longer pull apart.
-Felt the head to body, and face details like the fox's cheeks and the raccoon's mask
-Pull white and black wisps of roving and place across the raccoon's tail to make furry stripes, and felt into place.
-Felt the tail to the body
-Felt the white ear accents to face 
-Use your embroidery needle and thread to outline the legs and toes, sew on the button eyes and nose, add whiskers, and mouth if desired.
 
4) For the Robot:
-Felt around the outside edge of the yellow robot pattern piece to "tack" it to your felt background.  
-Felt the green grass ground pattern to the ivory background
-Felt the heart shape using your needle felt tool, red roving, and the heart mold. You can also cut a small heart out of red felt and needle felt it in position, or embroider the heart with red embroidery floss instead if you prefer.
-Pull whisps of the light and medium blue roving , and place them on the ivory background. Use your needle felt tool to felt them securely in place so that the roving is incorporated into the ivory felt background in a cloud-like manner.