I implemented my first plan:
1) interface appliques with silk organza

2) hand sew gold braid onto right side of velvet (I quickly learned that I should avoid machine sewing the velvet as much as possible)
3) clip braid
4) turn and -- ta da! one applique ready

Unfortunately, this resulted in very messy looking appliques:

Frustrated, I took myself back to the fabric store to look for inspiration for a new plan of attack. I found some gold silk duiponi and I decided that what I needed to do was create two appliques and sew the velvet applique onto a gold, piped background. I increased the original trim template by 5/8" on all sides and cut that out of the gold silk.

I placed some cording at the seam allowance and folded the silk over the cording to create the piping effect on the background applique:

I then turned the edged of the velvet appliques under by hand and whip-stitched them onto the gold. This made for a much better looking trim:

I remade all of the trim appliques and pinned them into place on the sleeves:

I was able to sew these to the sleeves by simply topstitching in the "ditch" right next to the piping:

I then sewed up the sleeve seams and they were ready to attach to the yoke!
Very helpful! Would you be able to share the measurements of the finished applique?
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