How to applique tutorial and free heart applique pattern

How To Appliqué

Applique is a great way to make your plushie look very proffesional! 
Use it for eyes, mouth and other parts. It is not hard to do, you can use any sewing machine! No embroidery machine needed!
You need: a sewing machine, thread, fabric and fusible webbing.

This is how you do it:

Iron the fusible webbing onto the wrong side of your appliqué fabric and allow to cool. Pull off the protective layer from the fusible webbing and draw around your pattern piece onto the fusible-web backed fabric. Cut out the marked shape without seam allowance. Now place the fabric piece, fusible-web side down onto, the right side of the fabric it is to be appliquéd to and iron in place (E).

2. Iron you application on the fabric and let it cool. You can sew the figure on the fabric with a normal stitch or a Zigzag stitch. If you use a very narrow Zigzag stitch it will give a embroidery effect.  Try the stitches first on a small piece of test fabric. If you don't have a sewing machine then you could use a blanket stitch to sew the applique on by hand.

 

Give your plushie a proffesional look with this technique. You can find the owl and frog pattern on www.mariskavos.nl. the frog has been made with minky fabric. You can use this technique on every

DIY Fluffies pattern.

 

Download the free heart applique pattern by clicking here.

Tutorial nintendo DS Lite or DSi Pouch

I made this tutorial a while ago. But got a lot of requests to make it in dutch.
Here it is in english, the next post will be in dutch!

If you can't sew then get you pouch here: http://www.fabrickitchen.nl




Tutorial:

First make a pattern. Here are the sizes you have to use for the DS Lite or DSi.
These are in cm.



Cut out the following fabric pieces. The plain green is the lining of the pouch.
I used a seam allowance of 1.5 cm.



Fold the dotted green part like on the picture. This is going to be the cover of the bag for the games. Sew the dotted green flap on of the outside pieces.

Fold the top of the (brown) bag part and sew the top.




Put the bag part under the flap. Put the other outside on to it, like on the next picture. The right sides of the fabric are put together. Sew the bag so it it 17,5 cm long. You can clip the seam allowance now.



Put the right sides of you lining fabric together and sew the bag(17.5 cm long)
Clip the corners and fold the top.



Fold all the seamallowances like on the picture. Put the lining into the outside bag. Now fold the top of your lining and put the top of the outside bag into it.
Do this on both sides of the bag.



Sew the top to the lining, both sides. Put a cord or ribbon through the 1 cm hole on both sides of the bags. This might be a bit tricky, a paperclip will help a lot.

Then you are done!

Free plush christmas ornament pattern and tutorial

It will be christmas before you now it!
Make your tree even more pretty with some elephant ornaments!

Or print the tutorial and send it as a christmas card to a crafty person!



Here are the tutorials and patterns:











A4 size (international):
Click here to download the pdf


Letter size (US Only):
Click here to download the pdf