We had this brilliant idea, the Eldest & I, of putting a couple of Lev’s favorite character on hats to help encourage him to wear said hats. I found out very quickly that even using waste canvas, stitching on a toddler size ball cap was brutal. Even looking at stitching on regular fabric, turning edges under and using it as an appliqué turned out to be a real challenge. Especially since there are no patterns easily available for his three favorite. Pic2Pat actually works for pictures. Cartoons? Not so much
My solution? An Etsy seller who had digitized several for machine embroidery.
They stitched out clearly, they are cute. But they are way too large to fit on a hat. These characters are close to 10 cm high. 5 is the realistic max for a kids hat. The samples will become bean bags. I am thinking about stitching Bobo (Siebenschläfer), der Elefant, and either der Bär or Tigger each on some long sleeved t-shirts…
Sis might be able to (if I ask nicely) get some of those characters in 3 cm embroidery format for you. I lost the t3x related mail adress, could you please add my new one to your mailinglist?