Posted this as a kickstarter update a while back, but I might as well put it here, too.

I still occasionally want to throw the embroidery machine out the window (augh! so many ways it can screw things up!) but I'm slowly getting the hang of it, and I have to admit that embroidered cutie marks look WAY sharper than applique ones, as this little picture demonstrates. On the left is a brand new Luna beanie with an embroidered cutie mark, on the right an older Luna Loonakit with an applique cutie mark.

(I did still applique the black to her butt on the new one, as I'd have to 100% redesign my beanie pattern to let me embroider the black too, and the show has shown us that the black is a natural marking and the moon itself the cutie mark, so I like having the black be minky. Also on larger Lunas, the area to embroider would be stupidly huge, even for my big machine, so it really wouldn't work. Anyhow, I like it better this way, and I should probably shut up now.)