My friend had a second baby and after scouring the shops for something original that she wouldn’t already have I decided to make something personal and a little more unique than what I could find in our local shops. Here is what I came up with.

Some felt embroidered stars and moons to spell out Reuben attached to a ribbon ready for handing on the cot or buggy. I digitised the shapes and let the embroidery machine do the work using the hooped embroidery stabiliser and felt. First the letter was embroidered for each shape then I attached some wadding and the backing felt to the back of the already hooped felt. I used a tack-down stitch in matching thread, then the machine performed the blanket stitch for the edging beautifully using a contrasting white embroidery thread.

Considering it wasn’t too much effort I think they look quite spectacular. I could do this again.