Originally Posted by Dotha
For those of you who do hand embroidery on quilt blocks, do you iron interfacing on the back of the fabric or do you embroidery on the top piece with a solid muslin fabric on the bottom. My Crabapple Hill patterns say to layer a muslin piece underneath the main fabric. Seems like that it could wrinkle up or not be smooth. Iron on interfacing, however, might bubble up. Just wondering what others do.
I posted a pic of my Crabapple Hill block here.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-124926-1.htm
I used a good quilt weight fabric and did not add the muslin they called for. The fabric I used was Kona Cotton Snow.
I dont use iron on interfacing either as I want the end result to be flexible, not stiff.