When you’re not baking in the kitchen, cookie cutters make great gadgets for the quilting room. Just trace around the outside of the cookie cutter onto the paper side of your favorite paper-backed fusible web and voila, easy-peasy fusible applique shapes. Use beads and glitter like candy sprinkles to make them look like sugar cookie appliques or simply use fabric that goes with the shapes.

I’ve got cookie cutters in traditional applique shapes like hearts and the Whig Rose, as well as whimsical animal shapes such as elephants and unicorns.

If you want your cookie cutter applique to be a two-part design like my strawberries at left, just trace around each part of the cookie cutter separately and fill in the gap after you remove the cookie cutter. See image above where I first traced the strawberry part only, then drew a line across the top to make a closed shape. Then I repeated the two steps with the leaf part of the strawberry design. Next get your iron out, fuse the two parts to fabric, cut them out, then arrange the pieces as desired and fuse them together.

Some people also like to use cookie cutters as quilting design templates. That would be a fun way to quilt a holiday quilt.

For more cookie cutter quilting fun, see my post, “Two for Valentine’s Day” where I made an edible Valentine’s Day cookie quilt.