Pattern Pattern
STEP TWO APPLIQUE
SenD uS yOur ChilD’S DeSiGn
1. Layout chick and egg on four-
If you have a budding artist or sewing enthusiast at home, pullout the
patch block. This is great time to
grid page provided and let the designing begin. We welcome children’s
let the kids’ creativity flow.
designs for a completed block to be presented in a future issue of Irish
2. Insert several strands of yel-
Quilting.
low thread at top of chick to
resemble tuff of hair.
3. Iron pieces in place, with
adequate adult supervision.
4. Machine appliqué around
the shapes using a blanket
or buttonhole stitch in a cor-
responding coloured thread.
STEP THREE FINISHING TOUCHES
1. Sew on two eyes with black
thread.
Tip
2. Preserve block for adding more
When sketching the perfect character or animal for applique, a great
holiday blocks—one for each
resource is a child’s colouring book. Colouring book images are ideal
season. Or, place in frame for
for tracing, providing clean and solid lines for images.
wall hanging.
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While we try to teach
our children all about life,
our children teach us
what life is all about.

Angela schwind
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