My blocks look alot like the one posted by "funquilter". They are appliqued on to white cotton blocks with no stabilizer at all and all hand appliqued on and then I add laces or doilies and last I do button or bead work. If has deco lace or scalloped edges I leave them that way, otherwise I add lace or embroidery/tatting work to edges. Use center of floral hankies or lace doilies for center of each block and applique corner cuts of hankies layered around it til get to outside edges of block.