My first applique project was a piece o cake block of the month series. I used a light box to transfer the pattern onto the fabric as I thought the vinyl placement method not particularly appealing. To my irritation a number of the patterns were not square. The designs were symetrical so therefore only a quarter of the pattern was printed, which is fine - I can rotate paper but after the pattern's horizontal and vertical guide lines wouldn't line up on the horizontal and vertical lines I basted on the background fabric, I placed my right angle along the horizontal and vertical guide lines on the paper pattern - the angle wasn't 90 degrees. This was typical throughout the series.