Applique Tuesday

Another one for the "to be appliqued" pile.  This one by machine:
Looks Chritmasy (sp?) doesn't it?

Slow Sunday Stitching & Stash Report

What with my sewing funk, only used 0.10 yds of fabric to make two 6.5" SS blocks this week. Here's the latest one:
So I have this one, the dresden plate, or my 29 year old hand quilting project to work on for this Slow Sunday Stitching day.

What are you up to?

PS: my YTD total for stash busting is now  a puny 26.31 yards.

And the Winner is:

Monica!  She's gotten back to me stating she loves paper piecing, but wants to work on her FMQ and applique.  I'm not ready to rid myself of any of my FMQ quilting books, but I did have to offer something for the other two areas of our hobby:

AnglePlay Blocks by Margaret J. Miller

Fresh Cut Flowers by Liz Schwartz & Stephen Seifert

Pick-A-Pattern Applique and Variations by Joan Waldman

Are you familiar with these?  If not you can go to Amazon and check them out.

Here's a photo of Fresh Cut Flowers - my favorite, however I know I'll never get to it as it's almost all paper piecing.
Which would you pick?

Before the New Year

As this is the next to the last day of 2025, I thought I'd report on the month of December now. Not to do with quilting, but still a mil...