Well - guess what ladies I don't do appliqué either. Right now my Northern Lights are secured on with spray basting and when the quilt top is done, I will FMQ everything down with different kinds of stitches with either invisible thread or different colored threads so you see you don't have to do folded under appliqué. I love to do FMQ on my domestic machine (Janome) so if you do FMQ you can do appliqué! I know everyone is not comfortable with FMQ but from what I've seen so far, your techniques whatever they are are awesome. Am loving seeing what everyone is doing. Happy quilting.