Plush Making Tutorial - Applique Using Your Embroidery Machine

Applique is when you take one piece of fabric and attach it to another piece of fabric by satin stitching (tight zigzag stitches). This can look more professional than top-stitching and makes it easier to add complex designs to your piece. Applique can be done two ways - what I call “by hand” (still sewn with a sewing machine, but not programmed with an embroidery program) or with an embroidery machine (with the stitches sewn by an embroidery program). This tutorial will go over the latter method.
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Each method has its pros and cons: by hand takes less up-front work, but tends to be messier depending on the skill level of the maker; by machine takes a decent amount of prep up-front, but is very clean and isn’t dependent on the skill of the maker. I generally prefer the embroidery machine method, unless it is a very small piece on a part of the plush that is not a “focus point”.
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