The Art of Appliqué

Appliqué is the art of sewing smaller pieces of fabric onto a larger surface. To find out more about appliqué and how it is done, visit TAS - The Appliqué Society. The Art of Applique on the TAS site, has several interesting articles to get you started.
There are several different appliqué methods:

• Stain Glass Appliqué
• Machine Appliqué   Also check out Tips for machine appliqué.
• Reverse Appliqué    How to reverse-applique a tote bag.  How to make a reverse applique on a T-Shirt by machine. Mending using this method!
• Hand Appliqué  Also check out this Back Basting Tutorial for Hand Applique. A close-up picture of hand applique. Hand Applique using freezer paper.

This should get you thinking about experimenting with this particular technique. I will follow up in a later post with sites that have free appliqué patterns.