Originally Posted by Rosyhf

This is the way we did this sort of thing in art school. First you need the size of the subject. Next, tape a piece of tracing paper the size of the image on the wall. take a good pic of the subject, animal or human, put the picture into a projector and project the image on the wall onto the paper. You can now trace all the important areas of the subject. Use that tracing to place your applique pieces.

After selecting your fabrics to match your subject, iron on pellon interfacing to the wrong side of the fabric, cut out your patterns from you pattern and fuse them to your background. The background should have a tracing of the subject for placement of the patches.