For this set of Woodland Critters background, I used up more of my fabric stash using 3 1/2” strips sewn in tall tree columns. Pattern designed by Wendy Gratz at Shiny Happy World.com
Note the bees !!! I’ve been so intrigued by her designs and layouts to enable one to use the print size HeatnBond sheets I decided to try to make some of my own. I used the new Vectornator app on my iPad.
Bees design from free license clip art
There or some learning curves as always in using a new app and in thinking through the process of the layout.
And to me that is part of the fun. Using vector images I can resize the animal to be a small as 1 inch or as large as fits the scene. In the pattern testing I realized the need to place the color under the black for the stripes to lessen the underlay show-through. Click on the image to download and print to try this method yourself. Better yet, start with the
Shiny Happy World patterns and watch her YouTube channel. There’s a wealth of information on technique and products that work best for this method of appliqué.
Also in the making, the small eye parts and tail are too tiny to secure stitch. Therefore they are boxed in a separate group to retrace onto HeatnBond Ultrahold or a permanent glue like Aleene’s Fabric Fusion.
I’ve got many more image tracings to before I master this technique. It’s fun, addictive, and will be so worth it for appliqué.
