So I was looking around the net recently and I came across this cute bird cushion project on a Brother website Here
So today I decided to try it out, the link above gives you the pattern for both the branch and the bird. I printed the pattern off twice I scanned one bird pattern into the ScanNcut and used scan to cut data, but I would suggest you cut away the pattern section names before you start as my scan picked those up so I scanned again without them.
Also the wing piece is on top of the body section so I cut just that piece from my second pattern and added to my scan mat so that I could scan all the parts in go and save them all together.
I used HeatNBond as usual on the back of my fabrics and as you can see it cut perfectly as always.
Finally I cut out the branch pattern by hand and traced around it onto my fabric and stitched with a decorative stitch.
Here is the finished cushion.
I am on a roll now with these, I love them.
I was asked to make some bunting with the words “friends are forever” I made it on Saturday night but didn’t have enough lace to string it together so I had to buy some more whilst out shopping today.
It’s about 2.5 metres long so here’s a little peek.
All the embroidery was done on my Janome Memory Craft 9900, cute I think don’t you?
I thought I would try doing a print, scan and cut on an in the hoop appliqué design that I bought a while ago. Now I am not good at hand sewing or cutting so anything that makes either of these things easy has to be a bonus, right?
I asked the owner if it was ok to do this and was told “yes if you can do it go for it”.
So today I printed out a basting stitch outline for this cute elephant design, I scanned it and got the ScanNCut to cut it and it was perfect.
In this video I show you how I did it all, hope it helps.
I would add if you choose the direct cut option, let the machine do its scanning and once its on your mat on screen, remove your cutting mat, take the printout off replace it with fabric and just load it back into the machine, the scanned image will still be there. All you have to do then is hit cut and it will cut the design for you.
And this is what the finished item looks like.