I appreciate all the suggestions. I've decided to go buy both a glue stick and a bottle of the washable and probably will only glue the serious curves. (I'm going to experiment, hence the probably.) Tartan, I usually do my stems the same way, but I already have yards and yards of 3/8 bias tape (made with the bias tool) made and since it is narrow, I wanted to try blanket stitch on both sides this time. A friend (and bee member) made the tap at this week's bee meeting.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I though I'd just do a very small wall hanging to experiment with.