How about a great online site? Erin Russek at One Piece at a Time has great video tutorials on her blog.
Here is a link to the one on stems (I THINK..I have a hard time figuring out a link from BLoglovin'. It is a long address thru bloglovin and not the direct link...)
http://erinrussek.typepad.com/one-pi...o-4-stems.html
She has a whole series of applique videos..just click on 'applique videos' in the column under her picture.