I’m making some of the bowl cozies that you have seen or maybe made but if you haven’t made any and are planning to, here are a few tips. There are lots of videos and tutorials online on how so I won’t go into that. Just a few things I learned when making mine.
Cut the batting an inch smaller than the fabric. I used a ten inch square and 9” batting. Sew just on the edge of the batting so there is no bulk at the seams. Clip corners.
Clip your darts. Speaking of darts, if you like a deep soup mug instead of a bowl make your darts a generous 2” long to make the cozy deeper.
Give yourself a good 4” to turn. Be sure to push out the corners with a chopstick or something like it once you turn it inside out.
Wonder clips work great for holding the opening closed.
Ha! Well after much adjusting and fixing the first five blocks went together .
Only a couple times did I have to break out this tool of torture and woe. 
Now the next 4 blocks almost did me in. The tool of torture ripped many a screaming seam. ( or was that me screaming) but I digress.
I’m finally at this point so the end it near. See those white strips? They are only 5/8” wide before sewing so not much room for error and I am not a precise quilter so error I am doing much of. 
These folded fabric ornaments are really quite easy and your friends will think you slaved for hours to make them. ( shhhh .... we won’t tell anyone)
Take two fabrics that go together, place them right sides together and after drawing a circle using a bowl or plate ( this one is 7 or 8 inches) cut out the circle.
With right sides together sew around the edge of the circle leaving a couple inches for turning
Turn inside out, press and topstitch along the edge being careful to fold in the opening so the topstitching goes over it.
Fold the circle in half and find the center.
With needle and thread sew the middle of the circle right at the top by just going in and out with your needle 3 or 4 time.
Bring the center of the other side in and tack that down the same way. Then the opposite side from that - do the same. 
Sew a few stitches on the side to end the thread work and cut the thread off.
You end up with this. Now you just fold down those corners trying to make them look the same.
It helps to look at the back and try to get all 4 corners with the same amount of overlap.
Now sew on a bauble of some kind in the middle and a hanging string.
I’m not thrilled about how he came out but it was really fun experimenting with the hairy fabric for his body. Where I went wrong is the pattern honestly. I cropped a photo and now see it would have been better either left whole of cropped higher up showing less body. It just seems not in proportion somehow. Oh well, live and learn. Anyway here are some pics of making him.
But first a closeup.
The pattern made from a photo I got online from a free to use public domain site
polyester fabric that was whith with long hair like stuff that I painted with a thinned out paint. Here it’s wet
Here it’s dry - pretty light but different shades which is how a heron is colored. So perfect!
Laying out the pieces after fusible has been applied and paper removed. See thru white fabric over the pattern for a base.
Quilting the moon!
Beak before shading
After
Originally the part around the eye was that lighter color. That was cut out of fabric but I thought it looked to much like a mask once it was on there. To small so I took a blue sharpie and colored in to make it bigger. But then it was to light.
Nothing some light blue thread can’t fix.
