Oh my gosh! I'm loving appliqué and discovering the amazing feel of using silk thread, like running a knife through soft butter. Never doing appliqué before I started with Alex Anderson's book Hand & Machine Appliqué. And then went to
The Quilt Shows website and watched several teaching sessions. From TQS I downloaded
2010 BOM, Hugs and Kisses by Susan Garman. Here is my first block and first attempt at hand appliqué.
From this picture my background looks like a dirty sheet but I promise it isn't. I wasn't happy with the first center flower and ended up making three different color combinations. Ended up with fabric I had in my stash. When I'm finished with the twelve blocks I'm going to be a pro at leaf making... Tons of leaves with little tiny pointy ends, yikes!!
Here's the beginning of the second block.
More leaves to make at least they don't have two pointed ends per leaf.
It won't be a surprise if I change the color combinations as I go. Makes it interesting to see what this fickle person will end up with.
Life is full of surprises, most we can't control.
Those you can control....
Make them happy
Make them colorful
and
Make sure they're memorable!
P.S.
My heart and sincere prayers go out to all of you who were in the path of Irene.
