I love to hand applique and finished 20 blocks for a Baltimore Album quilt altho never have decided how to put them together. Considering my 80th coming up I need to find the blocks and get with it. I suggest all you ladies really interested in the fine art of hand applique get one of the books put out by Ellie Schen.... While I do not know how to spell her name it will come up in Amazon. This woman does the most beautiful work imaginable. There are good ones out there but none compares to her. She even has a retreat once a year way up north that I always thought I would get to but never did. It would have been heaven for me.