Passthepasta

I just started appliqué and doing the "Birds of a Feather" quilt by Blackbird Designs as my first project. I am crazy. It is Hard! But I am having fun. I am using Sharon Shamber foundation paper to turn the edges, elmers glue and tiny machine blanket stitch with invisible polyester thread. It is going pretty well but I have a really hard time at the points. The needle seems to smash in the points and sometimes the raw edge kind of squashes out a little. It's those points that will send me screaming into the night. Maybe I need more glue? Any ideas what I can do when I get to those points? thanks.