I've seen the demo on the tools and they look great. I haven't done a ton of applique, but I took Beth Ferrier's Craftsy Class and I've used her wash away foundation paper and like it. For turning the edges I use a wooden cuticle stick that has a flat angled end. I just restocked myself with these from Sally's beauty supply. I use the Elmer's glue sticks. Have purchased the narrow Fons and Porter ones with the blue glue, but they dried out too fast for me. The applique leader glue looks like it would be better, but haven't tried it.