I love appliques, and you can just about applique ON anything, and use ANY type of fabrics for appliques.  The children's prints have so many wonderful things that can be appliqued onto wall hangings, on little shirts, dresses, shorts and whatever else you might be making.  Here are some other applique tips.

To make appliques out of any fabric design (like the children's prints) iron some "Wonder Under" to the back.  Trim around the design to be used for the applique, then peel away the wonder under backing and iron the design to the garment, a wall hanging, children's playhouse, etc.  This is the quickest and easiest applique to make!!

If your child has gotten some hand-me-downs from an older brother or sister, or handed down from friends, personalize the garment by putting some lace on the garment or an applique, or just embroider his/her initials somewhere on the garment.

When stuffing small detail areas of appliques, use a long tweezers.  By using small amounts of stuffing and placing them correctly, you'll have a "lump" free project when you're finished.

You can enlarge and reduce craft and applique patterns easily by using a photocopy machine.  If one enlargement or reduction is not sufficient, simply place the enlarged or reduced page back into the copier for a second enlargement or reduction.

If you photocopy a picture from a coloring book or another picture to use as a pattern for an applique, you can get one iron-on transfer from the photocopied picture.  Be careful  doing this, however, as the picture will come out backwards when transferred to the fabric.

If you're making appliques to sew on from scraps of fabric, spray starch the applique and iron it - the stiffening will make it easier to work with and less flimsy.  Use the glue stick to position it, and you're ready to sew it in place.

Have any other ideas for appliques?  Let us hear from you!