New Pattern: Happy Hippo Applique

$5.00

Purchase the hippo applique pattern here.

There's a new block in the safari quilt collection - a happy hippo. :-)

You saw a sneak peek of her in this week's video about handling inside points with my favorite machine applique technique. Now here she is in all her lavender glory!

She's a teeny bit more complicated to make than the Cheerful Chimp. She has a couple of extra pieces - teeth and nostrils - and those inside points, but nothing too difficult. If you want to make her even easier, you could use felt for the small bits so you don't have to fold under the edges of a woven fabric.

I made a slight change to the Cheerful Chimp pattern. These make big blocks (16 inches square) and I like to include full-sized pattern pieces so you don't have to mess with enlarging anything. On the chimp that means it printed out on two pages. The hippo's a little. . . wider. . . so she printed out on three. :-) They're easy to tape together, so if you're actually making these quilt blocks that's handy. But one of the great things about applique patterns is that you can also use them for lots of other things - smaller applique, embroidery, cut paper collage, wood burning, painting, etc. For those things you probably don't want a pattern so huge, but being spread over 2-3 pages makes it hard to enlarge or reduce. So now both patterns have an additional page with the image roughly 6 inches wide. That way you can easily enlarge or reduce it to any size you like. Handy!

So -  a link recap is, I think, in order. . .

how-to videos
How to Machine Applique Convex Curves video

How to Machine Applique Inside Points video

patterns
Cheerful Chimp Applique/Quilt Pattern

Happy Hippo Applique/Quilt Pattern

Safari Quilt Block of the Month series

Don't they look cute together? I wonder what's coming next month. . .

Happy stitching! And have a great weekend!

Best,
Wendi