Jake, Wool, New Applique and Nursery

 I had been saving my thread cones for Jake to play with. He was entertained for quite some time, building a little tower. Who needs real toys??

 Still working with my wool applique. It is so relaxing and enjoyable!

I kitted up another quilt this past week. My Evening Blooms from the Country Inn.

 Now I have all nine blocks ready to stitch. I took pictures as I went to help remember the order of the pieces since each block has a similar layout with the leaves.

 And now, a little pink and aqua going on around here getting ready for another grandchild.

 Love these colors and aqua has always been one of my favorites.

Hopefully I'll get the quilt top quilted this week, a pillow made and the nursery will almost be complete.

Country Inn

Isn't this a beautiful applique project to start this time of year? That is what I thought last year when I took these pictures. However, I had my Flower Pots going and so I continued to work on it this past year instead. So, now I need a new applique project. My hands don't do well being idle when I'm in my comfy chair.

This book is Country Inn by Barb Adams and Alma Allen of Blackbird Designs. There are two versions of this quilt, Evening Bloom and Country Rose - this is Evening Bloom.

 

Now the interesting thing is that I bought these fabrics several years ago just because I liked them, having no particular project in mind. I have a tendency to do that and then later the perfect project comes along to use them. 

 I think this will be more fun than just copying their fabrics. I really do enjoy choosing fabrics for a quilt - one of my favorite parts of making a quilt.

So, now back to my freezer paper for the patterns. I started tracing my templates Friday while meeting with my small group. That's one of the nice things with applique, you can do it in small bits and eventually you have a lovely quilt! Happy Thanksgiving all! We are so blest!