I saw these demonstrated last year at GNQS. One end is a flat two pronged fork for holding down the paper/fabric. The advantage of this is that with two points of contact, instead of just one with a cocktail stick it is not able to spin around as you work. The other one is a small cylinder (about 3/16" -1/4" diameter) that is cut off at a 20-3- degree angle and is used as the 'ironing' head for smoothing the fabric over the gluey paper. Both of the opposite ends are plain points. The appeared to be made of good quality steel. The demonstrator was show us how to make tiny dots - 1/4"(?) using the Japanese loosely woven fabric and they were near perfect. The advantage of using 2 long fine tools for the tiny details was obvious, as sometimes our fingers are too large & clumsy.

Since I am not into applique I didn't consider buying them, (besides which, I am married to an engineer - if I really want some I will ask him ) I did think them a bit steep in price, but as I said they are of a high grade looking steel, and the technique demonstrated for using them was very interesting .

I use two Alex Anderson 4 in 1 sticks and it works great. I posted a short video of me using them on Facebook.

These look like very nice steel tools....more than just the common pointy stick ! Like lots of other stuff....what
ever works for you !! Loc Bloks... regular rulers????

I use wooden BBQ kabob sticks. Large package / very inexpensive. Can be broken to what ever size is comfortable for you.

If she's using them to turn edges over (using a glue stick to hold them down), I use a sharply pointed wooden stiletto (http://www.woodbyc.com/Y1_aSEWING_ESSENTIALS_WOODbyC.htm). You could make one that would work fine, by sharpening a chopstick in a pencil sharpener!

That looks bizarrely expensive. Wouldn't two cuticle sticks work as well? Is that 25 Pounds? As in $41.00?

I bought this tool in Holland last year. It's called Apliquick and here is a website, the original, I think
http://apliquick.com/?p=1632

This is from the UK: http://www.thefatquarters.co.uk/apliquick-products.irc

I could not find any stores in the U.S. that carried them.

Carolyn Konig mentioned using an "Applique Stick" in her applique process. Can you provide me with a USA resource to purchase one.

Thank you.

Terry