Applique Thursday Giveaway - Barely!

It's approaching 10pm and I'm barely getting this Applique Thursday post in on time.  What a busy week it has been.

This week I did have a few moments to begin to assemble my 4th block of Esther's Forget Me Not mystery.  Here is the bare bones going onto the background.  I decided to color this bird as if it was a hooded warbler.  Have quilte a few pieces to go.

The winner of last week's book, Reverse Applique, is Billie.  Congrats, Billie, and thank you all who participated. 

This week's giveway is for a book with projects that are  pieced blocks and applique.  Again I fell in love with the lovely quilt on the cover. 

To win this copy, all you need to do is comment or link to have a chance for it to be yours. Or do both and have two chances. Submissions end Wednesday night. Use the blue link below. And remember, it doesn't have to be applique (that you share that is) - I love all sorts of eye candy.  Since I will be trying
the reverse method from last week's book (I really haven't had time to try it in the past few days), I'm linking to Melissa's TNT also. Go see what others are trying, too.

Design Wall Monday 10/8/12

This is a very busy week for me (and this always happens on the second week of the month!).  Two days of babysitting - two sets of DGKs, a funeral to go to, a St. Anne's Sewdality to plan for and moderate, a dental appointment and pulling books for a Saturday Sale and watching DGKs on Saturday, too!  So not much sewing will be done. So languishing all this week on my design wall unless I do some today is:

Do you recognize this , Bette?  I squared it up and added borders. Now just needs to be quilted. 

Here's a few units I've fused together for the Forget Me Not block I'm working on. Does it look like a Hooded Warbler to you? - LOL.  I'm way behind!!  If life would slow down, I might get more applique done.

Now what's on your design wall?  I'm linking to Judy's Patchwork Times, Lyn's BOMs Away , and Esther's WOW - those are always fun.

Stash Report 10/6/12

Got the second charity top finished.  Not my fabrics so it doesn't count toward stash reduction.  Did use 3 1/2 yards for three other charity quilts - two of those were backings.  The other 1 1/2 yards were square I cut for a rag rug.  And then I used some scraps to continue on my two applique blocks. I did buy two 1/4 pieces for one of the blocks.  LOL - spent $5 for a two six inch pieces I need, but they are batiks, so I know I'll use the rest somewhere.   I'm in the tedious stage of tracing and cutting the various pieces needed for those blocks. Takes time!

Here are my numbers: 
Used/Donated last week: 3.75  yards
Used/Donated YTD:    148.44 yards
Added/Bought last week:   0.5 yards

Added/Bought YTD:      36.04 yards
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Net Decrease YTD:      112.40 yards.

So how's your destashing going? I'm linking over to Judy's Patchwork Times. Be sure to visit to see what others have done.