There are lots of different ways to make and apply an applique design. My personal favorite is the fusible interface method. All you need is a design, some light weight fusible interface material and some fabric.
1) Trace your design on to the soft side of your interfacing. Not the bumpy gluey side is what I mean.
A word on tracing. However you trace it your design will end up mirrored. It'll face the opposite way from how you traced it so you can either A: reverse the design beforehand. I do this by tracing it onto paper, then tracing the design through the paper onto the back so you've got your mirror image. After that you can put it on interfacing. Or you can use option B : Who cares what way it's facing.
2 ) Liberate your traced design from the rest of the huge, crumpled, lump of interfacing in just a general cut out. No cutting on the lines here, please. You'll need to leave around 1/4" around the lines. Also cut out a little scrap of fabric to match the general shape of your interfacing.
3) Now you can start to sew, carefully ( this isn't a quick process ) on the lines of the design you traced. You need to place the the interfacing and your fabric right sides together - this means the right side of your fabric and the glue side of the interfacing. Sew all the way around. Trim it down, leaving about 1/4" seam around the edge and snip anywhere there are tight curves or turns. You'll be left with something like this.
At this point you make a little slit in the interfacing - be careful you don't cut through your fabric! Now, turn your applique inside out. You may want to use a pencil to push out the tight points.
Here's our little bird-lique now! The brilliance about this method is you get the look of needle turn applique but you don't actually have to DO needle turn applique. Now just iron him down wherever you need him! Be sure to zig zag or button hole stitch your applique in place.
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