Appliqué hearts

As I've said before, my style of crafting has never been neat. Which is why I kick ass at applique – well, this a-seven-year-old-did-it-so-lets-pretend-it's-good style of applique anyway. Framed up, they'll work as nice little Christmas pressies (can you tell we're having a thrifty Christmas in the Monty household this year?) and obviously they work wonders for using up your scraps.

I am rather addicted to this sort of thing right now… and can see here and here and here

Appliqué cat

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More appliqué, this time a cat – a rather pompous-looking cat at that. A pompuss… Sorry.

I tried to get the stitches around his feet to look like claws, and had great fun experimenting with various stitch tequniques (some I might have made up on my own, not sure) for his markings. Think a ginger one will work well in future too.

Woodland fox applique

Woodland is huge right now – can't move in New Look for owl jumpers, that's for sure. I've always been a badger girl at heart, but this fat quarter more or less forced me to abduct it for cash, and so a fox was plotted.

He's not finished yet - got the tip of his tail, face and ears to sort, but I like how he's coming along. Tempted to transfer him to a jumper – but I have a badger planned for that. One day…

Woodland fox applique

Woodland is huge right now – can't move in New Look for owl jumpers, that's for sure. I've always been a badger girl at heart, but this fat quarter more or less forced me to abduct it for cash, and so a fox was plotted.

He's not finished yet - got the tip of his tail, face and ears to sort, but I like how he's coming along. Tempted to transfer him to a jumper – but I have a badger planned for that. One day…

Mollie Makes, Cath Kidston mash-up

One look at the Cath Kidston personalised jumper tute we ran on our blog a while back, and I *had* to have a go. Here's my version. I found cutting the letters quite tricky (novice) and had yet to be introduced to the wonders of interfacing, so I think I did an OK job considering. Annoyingly the V of the jumper is a little wide, so if I choose to wear this jumper, I currently either sport my initials on my boob or arm pit. So… not wearing it til I can sort that.

Mollie Makes, Cath Kidston mash-up

One look at the Cath Kidston personalised jumper tute we ran on our blog a while back, and I *had* to have a go. Here's my version. I found cutting the letters quite tricky (novice) and had yet to be introduced to the wonders of interfacing, so I think I did an OK job considering. Annoyingly the V of the jumper is a little wide, so if I choose to wear this jumper, I currently either sport my initials on my boob or arm pit. So… not wearing it til I can sort that.

Applique hearts

My style of crafting has never been neat. Which is why I kick ass at applique – well, this a-seven-year-old-did-it-so-lets-pretend-it's-good style of applique anyway. Framed up, they'll work as nice little Christmas pressies (can you tell we're having a thrifty Christmas in the Monty household this year?) and obviously they work wonders for using up your scraps.

I am rather addicted to this sort of thing right now…

Applique hearts

My style of crafting has never been neat. Which is why I kick ass at applique – well, this a-seven-year-old-did-it-so-lets-pretend-it's-good style of applique anyway. Framed up, they'll work as nice little Christmas pressies (can you tell we're having a thrifty Christmas in the Monty household this year?) and obviously they work wonders for using up your scraps.

I am rather addicted to this sort of thing right now…