Applique? ...

... Me?  Never.  It's a well known fact that I don't do applique.  Actually maybe that should read that "I can't do applique".  But after my holiday with Lynn, who is the Queen of Applique I reckon, now I can do it.  While we were staying at the cabin, in order to distract me from bears and other marauding wild animals, one day Lynn volunteered to give Nancy and I a lesson on her method of doing it.  I don't think she knew what she was letting herself in for, but we certainly had fun, learnt a lot and laughed until our sides were aching. You can read about it here, if you want to.  So after that lesson I was a little bit hooked and decided to customise some of my Heartfire blocks by appliqueing my version of a red English rose in the centre.  This is what my very first ever applique block looks like

and this is how far I've got so far with these blocks

I think I love them more each time I add a completed block to the collection.

Anyway, the whole point of this chatter about applique is to tell you that I am soon going to be embarking on a serious project.  It's going to be a table runner, using part of Lynn's pattern, Harvest of Hope, and it will be the top part, which Lynn shows here, and hopefully will look something like this picture, (which I've once again stolen from Lynn's blog!)

Knowing that I'm not very well-endowed in the scrap department, she decided to raid her own supplies to send me these beauties

Thank you Lynn, I can hardly wait to get started.

While I'm saying thank you. I want to also thank Ann from Hudson Valley Quilts, who recently had a give away in conjunction with her sponsor, Cuts of Cotton, and I was the lucky winner of these gorgeous fabrics.  Thank you so much Ann, and Cuts of Cotton.

I don't know yet what I will do with them, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they don't show up in a certain applique table runner soon!