Help with applique needed

So far this is the best directions I have seen for creating appliques with your embroidery machine. Start out with a plain outline or shape of the applique you want to use. First you stitch the outline of the design on your machine, using no thread and plain paper in the hoop. This gives you a pattern template. Remove paper from the hoop and Cut out the stitched paper. Using the cutout, this is the pattern for the fabric applique, cut the design shape from the fabric you want to use for the applique. Now hoop the fabric you want to apply the applique to and stitch the outline again, this time using thread. This is where you will place the fabric you cut out from the template. Using a temporary spray adhesive, stick the cutout to the hooped fabric, within the border lines you just stitched. Now you can stitch in the rest of the design, and the fabric will be held in place permanently. Use a satin-stitch to border your applique shape and you have a professional looking design. Hope this helps, wish I had pictures to give you. If you get a chance to head over to alt.binaries.crafts.pictures and either ask for a tutorial to be posted, or check the postings for one that has already been uploaded. There were quite a few excellent tutorials posted in the last month. You will learn a lot! You can stitch anything you want on fleece, but you might want to use a stabilizer like "solvy" on the top of the fabric to prevent the threads from sinking into the fleece. You remove the solvy with spray of water after the design is complete.

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Excellent instructions!

There are free appliqué designs on

if you want to use the fleece scrapes to make sew-on-later patch typeappliqués (rather than appliqué directly onto an article), I'd hoop solvy,put the fleece cut out on top and cover it with another layer of solvybefore sewing out the satin stitch border. Experiment with various designsand have fun!

I've printed off your excellent instructions Warrior_13. Thank you very much for taking the time to explain in so much detail. And Thank you Coleah for the website. I think I'm going to have a lot of fun trying some of them.

Great NG ... so pleased I found it. Maybe someday I will be able to help others like you've helped me.

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You are very welcome. Glad I could help! I remember how frustrated I got trying to do this, until I saw a tutorial about this technique. Now it makes sense!