Favorite Things Friday 8/19/11

One of my favorite quilting things is scrap quilts - and look what I won 9 scrappy split nine-patch blocks last night at my guild meeting!  Since they're 12 1/2" square, they'll make a bright and quick charity quilt.  Love the repeating pattern that emerges when put together.

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Applique Thursday 8/18/11

And the winner is, as per the True Random Number Generator:  Min: 1, Max: 21,  result: 20 .

And that is:  Erin!
                                 Vesuviusmama said... " I have been miserably unsuccessful at appliqué so far, but I've linked up just the same" on August 15, 2011 8:24 AM.

Congratulations, Erin!  Send me your snail mail address and I'll send the book along to you.

Thank you all of you who decided to play and share your applique efforts with me.  I just loved visiting all of you and seeing your beautiful work.  What eye candy.  And fyi:  I'll be having another giveaway real soon.

Now to what I've done.  I did make a block this week that had applique.  You can see it in my post tuesday, Aug. 15 and 16th.  And in the mail today, I got this!:

Just the kind of quilts I like!  Some piecing and some applique - woohoo!
So, I need another applique piece to work on in these coming days and found one in my stack of ufos

I started this years ago and was my first attempt at needle turn applique.  On examining now, it looks kind of juvenile to me and not sure I want to finish it.  Here's what it was suppose to look like:

What would you do?

WIP Wednesday 8/17/11

Here is the state of my cutting table on a block I am working on. 

The idea is to see what I can do with a stack of 10" squares.  I don't know where I'm going with this, if anywhere, just playing.

Off for a Ladies Day Out in a little while.  We're going to Yorba Regional Park (about 30 miles away) and take a walk, then on to the Irvine Museum of Art for a California Plein Aire Exhibit, and then a Thai restaurant for lunch.

Here's what I usually say when I head out on the road:
              St Michael, defend us in traffic.
              St Raphael, travel with us as we go.
              St  Uriel, light our way.
              St Gabriel, tells us what we need to know.

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