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Home Sewing Patterns Penguin Family Portrait Sewing Pattern

Penguin Family Portrait Sewing Pattern

Difficulty

Intermediate

Material

Cotton

Designer

Carolyn Letten

Techniques

Machine Embroidery

Pattern Guide

Download

Difficulty

Intermediate

Material

Cotton

Designer

Carolyn Letten

Techniques

Machine Embroidery

Pattern Guide

Download

About this pattern

Recreate your family portrait with Carolyn Letten's winter-themed tutorial.

Combining appliqué with free motion embroidery, this personalised artwork depicting majestic penguins huddling together with their chick under a crisp winter sky is the perfect gift for those celebrating a new arrival; families come in all sorts of different shapes and sizes, so if yours looks a little different from the one designer Carolyn has stitched in her snowy scene, simply use whichever combination of penguins suits you best — you can even reduce the size of the little chick templates to fit more babies in.

Essentials

Felt: white, white glitter, grey marl, dark grey
Fabric: grey, black, orange
Double mount frame, grey, 8” x 10”
Acid-free glue stick

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Top sewing tip

Using a frame with a double mount ensures that the fabrics and embroidery are not squashed up to the glass.

Meet the designer

Owner of The Bobbin Bird, Carolyn Letten works from her Scarborough studio creating textile art inspired by the beautiful Yorkshire Coast & Moors. She also teaches free motion machine embroidery workshops and is a freelance designer for creativ