Instructions:
- Heat-fuse both your scrap fabrics with double sided fusible web, with sticky side (the
side without paper) facing the wrong side of your fabric. - Trace and cut the bird body from scrap one.
- Trace and cut the bird wing from scrap two.
- Peel off the backing paper and position on your garment.
- Heat-fuse the bird appliqué to your garment.
- Cut the tear away stabilizer to a size bigger than your chick (including legs and beak).
- Pin the stabilizer to the underside of your garment. This picture shows your fused pieces,
and the pins indicate the size of the stabilizer required. - Set your sewing to a machine to tight zigzag (I use 2.5 width and 0.5 length).
- Stitch all the way around the body of the bird, with one side of the stitch on the garment
and the other side of the stitch in your appliqué (binding and hiding the raw edges). The
green lines in the picture show how your zigzag stitch straddles the raw edge. It helps to
lessen the foot pressure of your machine so it is easier to turn around curves and it doesn't
put as much pressure on the fabric causing waviness. Where you change direction or need
a tighter curve, lower your needle down into the fabric, lift your foot and pivot.