How to: Ampersand patch

Black and white felt

White (or black) thread

Scissors

Pins (I always seem to miss something in the picture :P)

To get the shape I wanted I went though a range of fonts and chose the one I liked the most for this project. You don’t have to do this! I have created a pattern sheet for you! Click here and copy it. 🙂

Because of this the ampersand prints I am using in these photos will look different to yours.

Step 1: Print out the pattern and cut out the two ampersand shapes

Step 2: Pin the shape onto the felt

Step 3: Cut around the paper shape

yay!

Step 4: I had trouble using the pattern pinned on to cut out the shape because some of the sections are so fiddly so I decided to trace the shape onto the felt instead.

Much better. Now you can cut it out without worrying about the paper.

Step 5: Pin the white shape onto the black one. Use this to work out where exactly you want the smaller one to be.

Step 6: Get sewing! 

Stitch the two layers together.

Now you just have to work out what you want to put it on!

 Embellish a note book

Tack it onto your favourite pair of trackies. Thats what I am going to do 🙂

Or pop it onto a t-shirt!

If you are going to put it on something you are going to need to wash make sure you use a felt that can be washed!! You don’t want to spend all that time making something super awesome and then wash it and it gets wrecked!