The church was easy :!: We had an aarchitects sketch from when the church was first designed. Since this is our 2nd building in the total 25 years, the sketch wasn't that old. Anyway, I went to Kinkos and had it blown up ont the machine that makes copies of blue prints. I had 2 copies made. One I kept and used as a pplacement guide: the other I cut up into pieces and used for a pattern. After I ironed the fusible web to the back side, I seamed a piece of blue for he sky and green print for the grass. I had a pressing mat and put my pattern on the mat, then my background piece and then fused the applique pieces to that using the big picture as a placement guide. I went back and top stitched everything after I fused it in place. The leaves for the big trees are green yarn that I glued down using that Roxanne's glue baste and went back with invisible thread using the blind hem stitch and stith them down so they wouldn't fall off. Most of the bushes were just cut out of different greens and fused and top stitched, but I just went free form or make believe with them. The big trees are the same fabric that I used on the roof of the church. It is a brown with random black lines on it.--horizontal for the roof, vertical for the tree trunks. The windows are pieces of a gray print turned wrong side out with that shiny fabric on top of them to look like window glass. The hostas at the base of the pine trees are some kind of green grass cloth that was left over from somebody else used in making banners for the church earlier. They were glued and then top stitched down so they wouldn't fall off.
I had a great time doing it, and it was a lot easier than some of the other blocks that surround it. There is no picture in existance of Saint Claire and one lady just used a pictue of a nun and put her in a brown habit. And St Francis was sort of made up too. I can do it if I have a pattern, but am lost otherwise.