Wishes Wool Applique Project - QUESTIONS

[Candace D.]

Helen, thank you. That is what I finally decided to do.

[Helen W.]

WHAT IF....You wanted to do this pattern, Wishes, but have severe arthritis in your hands. You probably thought
wool appliqué was out. I ran into a you tube channel Betty Jo Tatum who does wool applique by machine. Yes, she
breaks all the rules that I have learned so far on this new adventure of wool applique, but her applique does look good.
Also for those of you with a lack of time for the leisure of hand stitching, you might benefit from using her machine
applique on the adhering the pieces down. On at the wool applique of Sue Spargo, it appears she covers all the wool
edges with decorative hand embroidery stitches so you would cover up the machine stitching. HelenW

[Susan W.]

I am using a cotton background with the wool appliqué and almost finished stitching the appliqué pieces down to cotton background.
Should I use a stabilizer when I start the decorative embroidery stitches? Is there batting already attached to top that I would embroider through or should embroidery stitches just go through cotton background?
Thank you!!!

[Helen W.]

Hi Susan W. I just put my stabilizer on my project this morning. Used black Pellon light weight
fusible. Wish I had done it like Alice F. and put it on the pieces before stitching the background
together but did not. Started pressing a few inches from back and then checked the front and had
ripples on the cotton background. Carefully pulled apart and then pressed from front with a cotton
pressing sheet on top. That worked fine. I would not add batting until after the decorative stitching.
It would cause a lot of drag on the thread and pull the batting hairs to the top of the piece. HelenW

[Alice F.]

Hi Alex, I'm also using cotton. Did you add batting to your piece? If yes, did you add and quilt after the embroidery or before?

Is Quilters Select Fabric Prep no longer made? I was wanting to try it for silk; I'm using a few pieces of silk in my applique.

[Helen W.]

Hi, I am not Alex, but I would add batting after decorative stitching is done. The thread would be very hard to pull thru the batting, would ravel and pull batting hairs to the top. Just my opinion. HelenW