If I am sewing them onto a background I use the buttonhole stitch on my sewing machine. I use the stitch that is close together and go slowly so I cover the raw edge.
These are going to be hotpads. I use the birthing method and I turn them rt side out through the center hole. Then I sew on a flat yoyo. I top stitch it on.
Since I wrote an ebook offered here on the Board on the Dresden Kaleidoscopes.
I did a basic tute on how to make the DKs.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...l-t252841.html
I am thinking about doing a tute on how to make the DKs into hotpads. Maybe some time soon.