Ok, this is a really long tutorial, and since I've had a lot of PM's about the quilt in my avatar, I figured that I'd make a tutorial with a new pattern that I just made up.

Please bear with me, this is a long one.
Step 1 is to pick your pattern. You can use whatever one you want. The one I'm using is one that I just designed - called Fairy Prayers. Remember that when you do fusible applique, all your images are REVERSED!

Ok - that's how I do it. Hope it's helpful to someone

Very explicit directons and good pix! Thanks.

thanks for showing the steps

Your a great teacher, thank you..

After you fused the fairy to the background fabtic, do you do a needle turn applique or do you just leave it as is and quilt around it?

You can do either akisan - This is going to be a wall hanging, so I'll leave it. You can blanket stitch around, or another type of raw edge.

Thank you for the tutorial :D:D:D

you're all welcome. Hope it helps someone. :)

Darning foot, huh? I give that a try thank you for the tip

So you don't stitch down your appliques? Don't they eventually come loose? I always stitch down my appliques - usually with a satin or button hole stitch.

For a wall hanging no, not always. This I probably will stitch with invisible thread.

If this block were going into a quilt, a hot pad, or onto a piece of clothing would it withstand repeated washings without the edges being stitched?

yes, they will come lose...humidity, dry air, either way...the bonding is not meant to be permanent and it will come lose!

hmmm, love how you did it but i wonder if a darning foor is available for the featherweights? I have to do a research but would love to make one like yours! Thanks for the tute....

I usually do stitch them down, not always, but most times. Didn't take a picture because I need to get more invisible thread. Can't take a picture of what you don't have.

Very helpful and great instructions! I will try this. Thanks!

Jennifer, you're a genius! Thanks for this good explanation.

Thank You for that, takes the scariness away!

Great job, thanks! Just remember, fusible ISN'T forever and it will lose it's attachment to the background fabric. I found this out the hard way on my avatar.

After 4 months the edges of my tree and thicket were lifting up from the background. I did quilt over all the fused pieces, just didn't get close enough to the edge and the edge lifted. I had to put my round wall hanging back on my frame and quilt a line down the edges of both sides to hold them down properly.

If you want faux trapunto on your pieces, sew the edges down for your fused piece and leave the rest to puff up. If you don't sew it down at all, you run the risk of having it fall off your piece completely.

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.

after a few washings does the smaller ones 'soften' up?

you did a great job at explaining !!! thank you

Mine is a wall hanging, so it will not be washed. I have never used fusible on a quilt that would be washed. I'd like to know the answer to that too!

They call that "windowing'' the fusible. I always do that for any piece that is large enough to make it worth the effort. And I always stitch the appliques down someway.

Very nice...I use paper-backed fusible as well.
A teacher recommended MistyFuse to me....have you ever used that? Just wondering...

I just looked at your tutorial. I am trying to learn applique. Is it okay to do nothing around the edges of the applique peices - no zig zag etc.? Will those ever fray? Thank you, Barb

Nice tute, thank you

Fusible is not permanent, the edges will lift and fray even if you never wash the piece, so you have to sew them down in some way or another. I personally prefer to quilt them down when I am quilting the piece, but I have a longarm so that is the easy way for me.

thank-you for your tutorail

Thank you great information.
Please tell me how do you get the stiffness out
of the finished product.
Regards Marlene.
Bendigo Vic.