About Chantel Simmons
Some girls dream of walk-in shoe closets. Chantel dreams of walk-in craft closets. A former crafter for HGTV, Chantel's now sharing her project plans with you. Check back every Friday as she offers up an easy-to-make or easy-to-bake craft you can give to a friend or keep for yourself.
These fabric fortune cookies make the perfect place holders for an Asian-inspired meal, or as a place to slip a love note in your husband’s briefcase or child’s backpack.
What You’ll Need:
Pretty fabric
Fusible fleece
Scissors
Iron
Thin wire or pipe cleaner
Scissors
Ribbon
Glue gun
Strips of Japanese or one-side printed paper
Felt-tip pen
Directions:
- Iron fusible fleece to wrong side of fabric.
- Cut out a 4.5-cm diameter circle of fabric+fleece
- Cut an 8-cm strip of wire or pipe cleaner and lay it in the centre of the circle, on the fleece side. Attach with glue.
- Cut an 8-cm strip of ribbon and lay overtop of the wire or pipe cleaner. Attach with glue.
- Write a message on a strip of paper, and slip inside the fortune.
- Fold the circle in half so the wire is straight, then backwards, bending the wire to form a fortune cookie shape. Fluff the cookie so that the material puffs outward to form a fortune cookie shape.
Tips:
Make an assortment of inspirational fortunes for a friend starting a new job or stage in life. She can keep it on her desk when she needs a pick-me-up during the day.
Write the name of each guest on one end of a strip of paper and slip inside the cookie to create place holders at your table.
Slip a ribbon through the centre of the fortune and attach to as a present-topper instead of a bow.
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