i seen on a fons n porter show once that they cut the fusiable so it was just on the edges of the design and then they didn't have it stiff for the whole thing.. anyone hear of doing it that way before?

thanks for the lesson. If you do this in a quilt, do you have to stitch around the edges of the applique to keep it from raveling if washed?

Yes you should stitch the edges down. I usually do that with invisible thread but I ran out. When I get some I'll try to take a picture of it. Since I'm out I couldn't take a picture of that step

Great tute! Thanks for sharing!!

Very helpful tutorial. I've never used fusibles and am wanting to do it this summer for a specific quilt. I will probaby be pulling this up again and again!

thanks for the info. looks great. thanks for the tute also that helps all the time.

Jennifer, that was a great tutorial and the pictures really help. Thanks

thanks for the tutorial, awesome

How hard is it to do the I think fairy in your avatar?

I have done it - the larger base fabric on my wolf on my avatar was huge so I did about an inch wide strip around the outside edge of the piece. For smaller pieces, I just have to do the whole piece of material.