Sea Turtle Applique with Printable Pattern

With Hubby graduating and our family moving out-of-state right before Christmas, we kind of flaked on Christmas gifts for a lot of people...like pretty much everyone we love except our own kiddos.  I'm trying to make up for that now that things have calmed down.  I know all these people love us and understood why we flaked out, but none the less, we're trying to do little things for people one at a time. 

So when my nephew had his first birthday, I decided to make him a little outfit.  His parents are pretty cool, trendy people, so I wanted a design that would be a good fit for their family.  I don't know if other people think it's cool and trendy, but I thought a sea turtle would be cute with summer almost here.

The shirt is one I got on sale back around Christmas time and never got around to using for the intended purpose.  The shorts were some extra ones that we had around.  I'm thinking maybe I should have done something to make the turtle on the shorts pop out a bit more...but I was working on a deadline.

For the design, I started with some free clipart I found on the internet here and modified it to look more like a sea turtle.

All of the applique is done with Heat'n Bond Lite and T-shirt scraps from other projects.



And of course, I've got a printable for you if you want to make your own groovy sea turtle.  I didn't do a full tutorial for this because it's basically the same as the others I've done, just with a different pattern.  For my tutorial with the dinosaur pattern, click here.

To download the printable turtle applique pattern, you can go here.