As I promised Vicky I stitched the flower on a very thin fabric. It is slippery and synthetic, but I did not have a better fabric other than cutting a pair of nets in the bedroom which seemed a bit drastic.

The stitching is fabulous when done directly on the fabric, with a layer of wss underneath..
For the loose flowers I used a double layer of fabric to give it more body and a layer of wss. That was another story. The double layer kept shifting slightly. I washed the wss out, apparently not completely so the colour is darker, but it has just enough body to hold its shape better than the single layer would have done.