I recently bought some fusible wash-away stabilizer at JoAnn's. It's a roll in a package, expensive, but not so much if you use a coupon. The stabilizer is sticky on one side, and you stick that side of the cut out shape to the back of your applique fabric, cut out the piece with the narrow seam allowance for turning, then use wash away glue sticks (I bought Fons & Porters, more $$ than Elmer's but I like how thin they are) to turn under and stick down the seam allowance. There are expensive long metal thin dowel-type rods for sale to use to help turn under the glued edges, but I use cheap wooden cuticle sticks. They work great---the wood grabs the fabric really well. Then place your applique where you want it with either a dab of glue on the fusible (on the backside) or pin in place and machine applique. I found this technique to be fast (faster than hand needle turn, anyway) and fun to do. I've been using the microquilter thread to do the machine applique, too.