Badger Cottage pattern

Lynette has created this amazing notebook cover with a matching pouch using beautiful, soft shades of turquoise and occasional brick-colour accents.

Badger Cottage is one of our most popular patterns and favourite projects for classes, due to the many different techniques you can learn. Think of: appliqué, embroidery, yo-yo making, and English paper piecing – enough to keep the students busy!

Pattern only.

English language

Materials:

A notebook to cover; mine measures approximately... 15 cm wide x 22 cm high. *You may need to adjust the required amount of fabric to the size of the notebook you wish to cover. 1 x 80 gram tea-stain look fabric, background for embroidery
12.5 cm (5 inches) x half the fabric width of each of 9 matching prints/checks, appliqués, yo-yos, and hexagons with English paper piecing technique
Small scrap of grey tone-on-tone fabric (approx. 6.5 cm x 12.5 cm), house appliqué
50 cm x 25 cm (20 inches x 10 inches) light blue-green floral print, notebook exterior
50 cm x 25 cm (20 inches x 10 inches) light blue-green check fabric, notebook lining
13 cm x 10 cm (5 inches x 4 inches) dark blue-green wool, backing the embroidery on the pencil case
30 cm square (12 inches) check fabric, pencil case lining
DMC threads, I used #370 green, #924 blue, #3031 dark brown, #3858 faded red and ecru
30 cm (12”) x WOF lightweight iron-on Pellon
1 x 1/8 iron-on stitch stabilizer, optional
3/4” pre-cut paper hexagons, I used about 85
15 cm (6”) zipper
4 x 1.5 cm (½”) miscellaneous buttons to match your fabrics, zipper stopper
Stencil plastic
Sew Line glue stick, optional
Roxannes Glue Baste It ™ (or a similar product), optional
Fine fabric marker, I use a Pigma marker in brown
1 x small jump ring
General hand sewing supplies