Interesting to read these comments, I spent the morning helping a friend who had purchased Laura’s Seed Pods pattern. It calls for numerous (sorry she took her pattern home with her) pieces of fabrics to collage into a background. The only piece with any cutting guidance was the bottom 1 1/2” x 34” piece….. the rest, you fuse steam a seam 2 to the back of your fabrics and cut chunks/squares/rectangles and fuse them to the foundation. If she did that with the amounts suggested in the pattern, she would have a ridiculous amount of background fabric that is fused and not usable for anything else. If you were going to make many projects that might be acceptable. Anyway, I did find one youtube that helped me, not her, understand Laura’s collage process, so we will see what tomorrow brings….she took home my ironing board, appliqué sheet, rulers and rotary cutter, and large cutting mat.
I do hand appliqué and machine appliqué but have not had the desire to do the fusible collages. If I can get my friend to the point she loves the project, then I might be interested. She saw a finished project in a quilt shop, but unfortunately they didn’t have any kits. But that said….would the kit have been more helpful than the written directions?