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Vincent The Victor

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Back in November I was excited to share with you that I had an article in One Thimble, a digital sewing magazine. Now, I’ve joined a blog hop to show some of the great patterns from Issue 9.
One Thimble Issue 9 Out Now

Vincent the Victor

Free Motion Embroidery pattern by Ric-Rac and Retro
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As I mentioned in my November post, I’ve been wanting to try FMA – Free Motion Applique (or free motion embroidery, as far as I know they’re the same thing, at least they are in this situation), so when the opportunity to join other bloggers and sew up some items from One Thimble Issue 9 came up, I decided now is the time to give it a try. I put my name down for Vincent the Victor free motion embroidery pattern, and as luck would have it, the very next day, my son asked me to make him a fox bag. The stars aligned in my sewing world!

The pattern was really great and walked me through everything. To be honest, I wasn’t even entirely sure what free motion embroidery was! I just followed the steps, and voila! A fox to go on the front of a bag! I took a few pictures as I went to show you the process:

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After cutting out the pattern pieces, and fusing interfacing and webbing.
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Peeled off the fusible webbing backing and assembled the pieces; now fusing the assembly in place (I appliqued mine directly on to my bag front instead of an additional backing – this option is mentioned in the pattern as well).
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My stitching lines all marked out and ready to go!
For the actual stitching, I used my free motion (darning) foot and had quite a bit of fun with it. Once that was done, I assembled my bag like normal. I used Thread Riding Hood’s Forest Glen Satchel, without the flap and side accent pieces; it was the perfect shape and size for this fox, and for my son, who requested a bag to carry his dinosaurs around in.

Of course, Vincent can be added to many different items: T-shirts, pillows, fabric baskets, or even a quilt!

This was such a fun project! I really enjoyed rummaging through my scraps to find the perfect “clothes” for Vincent. There’s so many variations that can be done too! Issue 9 offers 2 Free Motion Embroidery patterns, which you can buy individually, as a bundle, orjust get the whole issue for best value.

Check the links at the bottom of this post to see what everyone else was up to! Here are a few pictures of my finished bag – and one happy boy!

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I’d love to hear what you think! Have you tried FMA yet?

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Comments

  1. Daryl says

    You’re so brave Reece, I don’t trust myself to do any kind of visible stitching like this. Well done.

  3. vicky myers says

    Such neat cutting out, the clothes all fit perfectly on top of each other:). Great stitching resulting in a cute bag:)

  5. Sh says

    Ooooh Reece! Wow! I’m with Daryl on this one. It does look fun though. And your bag is so cute! Great idea omitting the flap on the Satchel, it turned out great. Thanks so much for linking to it!

    • Reece says

      Thank you Sherri! The pattern was just the perfect size for him and I was happy to make it again; they’re always much faster the second and third times.