With their simple bold shapes, cookie cutters make excellent templates for both appliqué and the final quilting. And of course you can have your quilt and eat it too — make quilt-themed cookies by choosing your ‘fabrics’ and block patterns and then topping sugar or gingerbread cookies with royal icing or rolled fondant to recreate them. How about a gift basket filled with a set of gingerbread man appliqué mug rugs, patchwork gingerbread man cookies, and a jar of hot cocoa mix… mmmm.

For more inspiration, these cookies are beyond cute:

• http://www.glorioustreats.com/2012/05/sewing-and-quilt-cookies.html
• http://diaryofacookiecutter.wordpress.com/2014/07/25/a-lesson-inquilting-with-cookies/