Originally Posted by
Pat G
This is the pattern I just used but I must have made a mistake. I stitched down both sides of the crisscross "crusts" & I was very disappointed in how flat the finished pc. was. I love the idea of adding rickrack & will do that the next time. I will also do something different with the crusts to make them more dimensional.
I did stitch down both sides of the lattuce and was still pleased with the result. It seemed to make the fruit puff up just a bit more. My pattern was different than the one you linked to, and the lattuce strips were cut 1" wide and each side folded to the center making them pretty narrow.