Appliqué a girlie design

1. Choose the relevant shapes from the template on page 80 and copy them onto fusible webbing. Iron the birdhouse onto striped pink and white fabric; the roof, bottom section and opening onto dark pink; the leaves onto patterned green; the bird onto cream; and the wing and tail onto spotty pink.

2. Iron an 18cm x 23cm piece of lightweight interfacing to the inside front of a vest, 3cm down from the neckline. Position your cut-out pieces centrally onto the vest, ensuring that the leaves are positioned around the house and checking that they aren’t too far apart. Iron the fabrics into place, once satisfied with the composition.

3. Reveal the free arm of your sewing machine by taking away the removable section of the base, as you would to change the bobbin. Sew the edges of the birdhouse and roof with cream thread and a wide zig zag stitch. Be careful not to catch any other parts of the vest in the stitches.

4. Zig zag stit