Applique or embroidery for name?

[sophy]

I am making a child's apron for a xmas present, and would like to personalise it with the name.

My sewing/craft skills are pretty basic, can anyone tell me the best way to do this please?

Was thinking applique would look nice but sewing round all the letters of the edges without them fraying would be tricky.

Could embroider by hand but not sure how neat it would be. Would I use chain stitch, like I learned at school decades ago?

Help please!

Can't help but bumping for you.

You could do blanket stitch around the letters to applique rather then chain stitch.

What material are you using.

Thanks Lizziemum, I was quite neat at blanket stitch at school! Would I have to use a fabric that doesn't fray then, such as felt?

Was quite keen to use pink cotton gingham for the letters (apron will be made of denim) but think that turning the edges in around letters which are quite tricky shapes would be too hard.

Fleece would be OK too

When I appliqued a name onto a blanket i used felt for the letters. tacked them into place and then blanket stitch round the edges.

if you want to use the gingham what about if you cut out a rectangle and use that as a background for pink (or white) felt letters? I'd recommend washing everything first though to make sure none of it shrinks too much.

Ooh, I might do this for my friend's daughters for christmas, can i steal your idea please?!

Feel free Miamla. I am recycling an old denim shirt to make it (found jeans were the wrong shape).

If you use felt, would it still be machine washable?

If you use Bondaweb to attach the letters before you sew around the edges this does have a bit of an effect to stop the cotton fraying.

Wool felt may be washable

Or use those zigzag scissors to cutt he letters out (but I'd use wonderweb as well

Iron them together before cutting