Prepping for Applique

 I will start off with a recent visit by Mama Moose and Baby.  She comes up to drink out of our rain barrel. We caught them on our security camera, but I couldn't figure out how to download from there so took a video of the video. So I apologize for the quality.

So not much actual sewing going on here. I have been spending my days painting the exterior of the house. I started last summer and I am back at now. I wanted to start sooner, but had all that firewood to deal with first. So my evenings have been spent prepping (hopefully) all the applique pieces I need for the borders of my Cassandra's Circle quilt. I used Karen K Buckley's Perfect Circles and her Bigger Perfect Leaves this time. The leaves will definitely be quicker to sew this way. I also made a template for the flowers and used it to press the edges of the flowers shapes. I am hoping this will speed up the flower applique too.

All the pieces are prepped, now just to position them on to the next three borders

The template I made for the flower pieces

This is the first border. I just need to sew down all the pieces. Two corners will have the plumes, two will not. The plumes will be "kitty-corner" from each other.

I finished block 4 for the Freedom's Friend's BOM I am doing. You can find out more about it on Barbara Brackman's blog HERE and HERE.

Block 4, the Dove

Happy Quilting! Rebecca