Originally Posted by Skeat
I'm so excited for you to applique! You will just love it! When I applique....I work center out. I just did a vase w/stems...that had many leaves and flowers...I used my applique pins (so worth having these!) and pinned all of it. Then stitched my vase..which was the biggest item first..then each stem...then on to the leaves, and flowers. Make sense?So, for a flower...say a sunflower...I'd pin in place all of it....stitch the center of flower first...then the petals. hope this helps!:)Skeat
Thanks everyone for the advice! :D
Instead of pinning all of the flower pieces down, could you just applique the center to the flower, then the flower to the background. I'm just wondering if this will distort the flower or if there is another reason why you would have to pin it all down first.
The background is a pretty big piece - so I'm trying to make it easier, if I applique the center of the flower to the flower, it would certainly be alot less awkward.