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Children's Padded Play Mat
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Keep your little ones occupied this month with a patchwork activity play mat!
There are lots of activities on this play mat to keep children busy, and you could easily add more! If your little one is very small, then replace the mini washing-line pegs with hook-and-loop tape or snap fasteners. I’ve included templates for the alphabet so you can personalize your mat; of course, the appliqué shapes can be used on other projects too! Feel free to change the fabrics and colourway to suit your child’s tastes; I’ve deliberately used felt as it doesn’t fray and relatively robust.
I’ve free-motion embroidered the appliqué pieces to my mat, you could use a straight stitch on your machine or hand sew if you prefer.
Finished size: 24in (61cm) square
Note: Use a ¼in (5mm) seam allowance throughout, unless otherwise stated.
Alphabet is Kohne Makina, courtesy of Krafti Lab.
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You will need:
Equipment
- Sewing machine
- Dressmaking shears
- Fabric glue stick
- Erasable fabric marker pen
- Strong wet fabric glue, such as Gütermann’s HT2
- Ruler
- Hand embroidery needle
- Tacking/basting spray
Materials
- For the mat:
- Two 13in (33cm) square pieces each of red and blue fabric, for the mat topper
- 26in (66cm) piece of backing fabric – mine is green
- 26in (66cm) piece of wadding/batting
- For the rainbow:
- Five brightly coloured 8in (20cm) zips – don’t use metal zips, as you need to cut through the teeth!
- 6 x 3in (15.25 x 7.75cm) piece of white felt, for the cloud
- 5 x 3in (12.75 x 7.75cm) piece of light green felt, for one of the hills
- 4 x 2in (10 x 5cm) piece of dark green felt, for the other hill
- For the bear:
- 5 x 7in (12.75 x 17.7cm) piece of light brown felt
- 6in (15.25cm) square piece of dark brown fabric
- Five 3in (7.75cm) squares of different brightly coloured felt, for the balloons
- 30in (76.25) length of cord, for the balloon ties – I’ve used jewellery cord
- Fifteen beads
- Felt numbers, from 1 to 5 – I used pre-bought numbers
- Black embroidery thread/floss
- For the robot
- 6 x 5in (15.25 x 12.75cm) piece of yellow felt
- 4 x 3in (10 x 7.75cm) piece of blue felt
- Two buttons
- 25mm wide plastic side release buckle
- 10in (25.5cm) length of 1in (2.5cm) wide ribbon
- Five pipe cleaners/chenille sticks
- 30in (76.25cm) length of tubular cord – this is similar to shoe lacing
- Paper scissors, for cutting the pipe cleaners/chenille sticks
- For the washing line:
- Two ½ x 10in (1.25 x 25.5cm) strips of brown felt
- 15in (38cm) length of cord or twine
- 5 x 4in (12.75 x 10cm) piece of yellow felt, for the basket
- 4 x 3in (10 x 7.75cm) piece of pink felt
- 3in (7.75cm) square piece of blue felt
- 4 x 3in (10 x 7.75cm) piece of yellow felt
- 13 x 2in (33 x 5cm) strip of green felt
- Six small pegs
- For the ABCs:
- Three 5 x 3in (12.75 x 7.75cm) pieces of different coloured felt – if you are changing the letters or adding more, you will need to cut out more 5 x 3in (12.75 x 7.75cm) pieces
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