Santa & Mrs Claus Cushions

Santa & Mrs Claus Cushions

Materials:

Introduction This pattern includes instructions for making a pair of piped Christmas cushions, featuring Santa and

Mrs Claus! The faces of Santa and Mrs Claus are made using Foundation Paper Piecing techniques.

Instructions are included for turning the blocks into cushion covers, including adding borders, making &

adding piping and making an envelope back.

The cushions measure approximately 14” square and the

FPP blocks measure 10” square when finished.

The Santa and Mrs Claus blocks can be used in other

patchwork and quilting projects.

Requirements

Finished Sizes

The finished cushions measure

14” square and the FPP faces

measure 10” (finished)

Tools and Notions:

Coordinating thread

Two (2) 16” square pieces of wadding (optional)

Two (2) 17” square of backing fabric (optional)

120”/3m Piping cord

Two (2) 14” square cushion pad inserts

Rotary cutter, ruler & mat

Add a 1/4” ruler

FPP or copy paper

Matt tape or glue (to join pattern pieces)

Glue pen (optional)

Sewing clips or pins

Paper scissors

Standard and zipper foot for sewing machine

Iron and pressing surface

Four (4) 1/2” buttons for eyes

Two (2) 1/2” buttons for noses

Fabric marking pen

Embroidery thread and needle for face details

Colour

(as per samples) Quantity

Piping Grey Fat Quarter (18” x 22”)

Background Light Blue Fat Quarter (18” x 22”)

Hat, Sashing and Cushion Backs Red 0.75m / 30”

Hat Trim and Beard White Fat Eighth (18” x 11”)

Face Peach Fat Eighth (18” x 11”)

Hair and Moustache Grey Fat Eighth (18” x 11”)

Requirements are based on 44” wide fabric. Quantities given allow you to make BOTH the Santa and

Mrs Claus cushions with piping and envelope backs.

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Cutting Out Before starting to Foundation Paper Piece the 10” blocks, cut the bias strips for piping, the cushion backs

and border strips as follows:

Colour Santa Mrs Claus

Background Light Blue A5 - 3.25 x 2”

B6 - 1.75” x 1.75”

B7 - 2” x 2”

C2 - 5” x 3”

D2 - 5.75” x 2”

D3 - 5” x 2.25”

D4 - 4.5” x 2”

D5 - 5” x 2.5”

E2 - 1.25” x 1.25”

E3 - 1.25” x 1.25”

E4 - 2” x 2”

E5 - 1” x 1”

E6 - 2” x 1.25”

E7 - 2.25” x 1”

E8 - 3.5” x 3”

F2 - 4.75” x 2.5”

F3 - 5.25” x 4.5”

F4 - 4” x 5.75”

A2 - 1.25” x 1.25”

A3 - 1.25” x 1.25”

A4 - 1.5” x2”

A5 - 3” x 1.75”

A6 - 3” x 2.75”

A7 - 4.25” x 4.25”

B1 - 2” x 1.5”

C2 - 2.25” x 4.75”

C8 - 4.25” x 2”

C10 - 4.5”x 3”

D2 - 1.25” x 1.5”

D3 - 2” x 1.75”

D4 - 1.25” x 1.5”

D5 - 2” x 1.5”

D6 - 2.75” x 1.5”

D7 - 2.5” x 2.5”

D8 - 6” x 2.25”

E2 - 5” x 2.25”

E3 - 5.75” x 4”

E4 - 5.25” x 4.5”

Hat Red C1 - 5” x 4”

F1 - 8.25” x 2.75”

B2 - 1.75” x 1.25”

C9 - 6” x 2.5”

E1 - 8” x 2.75”

Hat Trim and Beard White A2 - 2” x 1.75”

A3 - 2 “x 2.25”

A4 - 7” x 2”

B1 - 4.5” x 1.75”

B4 - 3” x 1.75”

B5 - 2.75” x 2”

D1 - 8.25” x 3”

E1 - 2.25” x 2.25”

A1 - 2.25” x 2.25”

C7 - 6.5” x 2.25”

Face Peach A1 - 6.75” x 2.25” C1 - 8” x 5.5”

Hair and Moustache Grey B2 - 4.75” x 1.75”

B3 - 4.75” x 1.75”

C3 - 2.5” x 1.25”

C4 - 3.25” x 1”

C5 - 3.25” x 1.25”

C6 - 4” x 2.5”

D1 - 3.25” x 2.5”

Borders and Cushion Backs (Red):

• Four (4) 2 3/4 ” x 10 1/2” (vertical borders)

• Four (4) 2 3/4” x 15” (horizontal border)

• Four (4) 11” X 15” (cushion backs)

Piping (Grey):

• Enough 1 1/2” bias strips to make 120”/3m

of bias tape

• Two (2) 1 1/2” x 1 1/2” squares to cover

ends of piping

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Use remaining fabric for Foundation Paper Piecing the Santa & Mrs Claus blocks. Use your preferred

method for preparing your fabrics/sewing FPP. If you prefer to cut rectangle for each piece, the rough

measurements in the table below:

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Colouring Diagram - Santa Use this blank diagram of the Santa block to help plan your colour scheme or fabric placement. You

can also refer to the illustration on the front cover.

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Use this blank diagram of the Mrs Claus block to help plan your colour scheme or fabric placement. You

can also refer to the illustration on the front cover.

Colouring Diagram - Mrs Claus

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Printing the Pattern Pieces :: The pattern pieces are presented in two separate

documents. Choose the file that suits you best:

1. Tiled pattern pieces - A4 or Letter, 6 pages in total.

2. Large format - A2

:: The pattern pieces have been reversed so that you make

faces laid out exactly the same as on the front cover.

:: A 1/4” seam allowance has been included around each section and is represented with a dashed

line. When trimming your paper pattern pieces do so to this line.

:: Print out the pattern pages Actual Size and do not scale the pages or fit to page.

:: If you are printing out on Foundation Paper, remember to change your printer settings if necessary.

:: Check the 1” test square before printing out all of your pattern pieces or starting to cut them out. This

will allow you to check your printer settings.

See my blog post How to Assemble pdf Sewing Patterns for tips on printing right first time around!

TOP TIP

Use cheap, lightweight printer paper

to print your pattern pieces.

It will be easier to remove later!

Assembling the Pattern Pieces

The tiled pattern pieces are

presented over 6 pages. They

are laid out as per the diagram

opposite.

Three of the larger pattern

pieces/sections are laid out over

multiple pages and will need to

be joined together. You do not

need to join all 6 pages together,

just the relevant pattern pieces

where indicated. The FPP

sections that need to be joined

have been highlighted in grey on

this diagram.

Join the pieces together using

either a glue stick or matt tape

(as it is not as thick as

standard/gloss tape).

The large format file has the pattern pieces presented on A2 sheet (16.5” x 23.4”) and can be printed on

one page at your local copy store.

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Assembling the Blocks

Santa: 6 sections, A-F Mrs Claus: 5 sections, A-E

Foundation Paper Piece each section individually and then trim to the 1/4” dashed line.

Using the diagrams below and the illustrations that follow, join the sections together to complete the two

blocks.

The green circles in the diagrams below show where you need to pay particular attention when joining

sections and seams.

Santa:

AB+C=ABC D+E=DE A+B=AB

ABC+DE+F=

completed Santa

C

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Santa & Mrs Claus Cushions Assembling the blocks (contd.)

New to FPP?

See my YouTube channel for ‘how-to’

videos on Foundation Paper Piecing

Mrs Claus:

A+B=AB

AB+C+D+E=

completed Mrs Claus

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Add Borders

Using a 1/4” seam allowance, add vertical then horizontal borders, pressing away from

the central FPP section.

Remove papers from FPP section and press cushion front again.

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Face Detail

Quilting your pieced front is optional. If you do not want to quilt your cushion front,

move on to stitching the face details.

Take the pieced cushion front, the wadding and backing fabric and make a quilt

sandwich. Baste using preferred method.

Quilt as desired. On the samples I have used FMQ to add texture to the hat bands and

bobbles, Santa’s beard and Mrs Claus’ hair. I have also added cross hatch quilting on

the background behind the faces and straight line quilting on the borders.

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Using the pattern pieces (A&B for Santa and

C for Mrs Claus), transfer face markings to each

of the faces.

Using 2 strands of embroidery thread, sew with a

backstitch to create the eyebrows, glasses and

mouths.

Attach buttons for eyes and nose.

Top Tip

Before using, test your fabric marking

pen on a scrap of fabric first!

Join the 1 1/2” wide bias strips to make two 60”/150cm long strips, one for each

cushion.

Change the foot on your sewing machine to a zipper foot.

Wrap bias strips around piping cord, line up raw

edges. Using a thread colour that matches your

piping fabric, baste along the length of the strips,

as close to the wrapped cord as possible.

Make Piping

Quilting (optional)

FREE Tutorial

See the FREE tutorial How to Make

Your Own Piping for lots of tips

Square Up

Once you have finished any quilting and adding the face details, square up the

cushion front and remove the excess wadding and backing fabric.

If you have done a lot of quilting, you may find that your cushion front no longer

measures 15” x 15” after squaring up. If this is the case you will need to slightly

reduce the dimensions of the cushion back pieces by the corresponding amount.

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Attach Piping With raw edges matching, lay piping on the cushion front. Start on a straight edge,

approximately 4” from a corner.

Clip into seam allowance of piping to allow it to bend

around the corners more easily.

Trim ends of piping so that they meet.

Take a 1 1/2” x 1 1/2” square and turn in a 1/4” hem on

two opposite edges. Slip under the point where the two

ends of piping meet. Wrap the rectangle over the ends,

matching up the raw edges.

Baste piping seam allowance in place around

the whole of the cushion front, as close to the

piping cord as possible.

Piping Tutorial

See the website for a step by step

guide to adding piping to a cushion.

Make a 1/2” double hem on each of the cushion back pieces along one 15” edge.

Top stitch 1/4” from the folded edge from the right side.

Place cushion right side uppermost and lay two

cushion back pieces on top, with right sides

facing the cushion front. The two back pieces will

overlap by approx. 5”. Pin or clip in place.

Using zipper foot stitch around all 4 sides, close to

the piping (approx. 1/2” from raw edge).

Trim corners and turn through to right side.

Top Tip

Sew with cushion front uppermost & use

the basting stitches from attaching the

piping as a stitching guide.

Make and Add Cushion Backing

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Thank you so much for buying a copy of the

Santa & Mrs Claus FPP cushions pattern!

I hope that you will love making their sweet little faces and

that these cushions will be part of many happy Christmases

to come!

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pattern to create a fabulous Christmas wall hanging.

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