Everyone - your blocks are all incredible!! Dotty - love the wall! Wish I could make mine work
Spartan - your points look great - it is really hard to get a fine point in applique. I think an inner point is easier in some respects although even the best applique artists I know and have seen on quiltshow segments say it is impossible to avoid seeing the thread you use because you are pulling in or laying down just a thread or two when you get down in that inner corner. You have to put a minimum of three stitches in to hold it down without fraying [and possibly use fraycheck as well depending on the fabric.] If you use the exact color thread as your applique, an additional 'tack' out from the point of the fabric ever so slightly will make it appear you have a very fine point. I have learned a great deal about applique from my friends Margarete [
http://www.quiltquest.net/Index.htm] and Rita [
http://www.ritaverroca.com/] who are both international award winners - no I won't ever be as good as either one of them!!
Nancy - I disagree...if we take the time to plan our sewing right when we are perfectionists and critical about our own work [I think we all are most critical of our own] it may seem longer, but it actually takes much MUCH less time because we don't reverse sew
Gus