GailG

Great big thanks to all who were so gracious and helpful with this thread. I googled tutorials on needle turn applique techiques and came upon the one with the "cheater" method of needleturn. It uses the non adhesive interfacing instead of the adhesive type that I had been using. I'll be out and about tomorrow (dr's appt) so will stop in at the LQS to get a supply so I can get started with my letters. This board is the greatest! Special thanks to QM, katier825, Teacup,QuiltnNan, and Tartan for your input. Happy quilting, Y'all.

QM

And the same to you.

Jim

I bought a set of cardboard letters at the DOLLAR TREE they were in school or teachers area and 4 inches. I put stitch witchery on fabric and turned the cardboard templates backwards of the fabric...traced with a pencil cut them out and ironed them on my top where I wanted them. Then I stitched with a satin stitch all around them...here's an applique quilt for a special little boy that I made earlier this year

BMP

Thanks for all the ideas, I was struggling finding what I wanted too ..

candi

Gail, I am not sure if you found what you are looking for..but I have used this site multiple times, the patterns are free and great..and you can enlarge when you print to get the size you need. I generally do fusible applique and use a satin stitch. Patterns are already reversed to this method too.

http://www.free-quilt-patterns.net/c.../Alphabet.html

Hope this helps!