Wow you have got great talent girl!!
I love the Mccalls quilt, and your applique blocks are stunning, I enjoy applique with the fusible web, but I cheat nowadays and use my machine. (I started about 18 months ago doing EVERYTHING by hand) It has many different embroidery stitches and you can adapt quite afew to make an extra dimention to your applique and its QUICK!!!
Beautiful work going on here!! :D