Quilt 365 - day two

Much improved applique. I tried to remember Jude Hill's tutorial on applique and guess what? It really helped! Thank you Jude!

If you haven't seen Jude's work, do yourself a favor. Her critters and beasts have inspired faces. Her work is soothing.

Jude Hill Spirit Cloth

And her very helpful YouTube tutorial:

Spirit Cloth Applique tutorial

Let's try one more time

Quilt 365.  Quiltyfolk have caught my attention. 1 a day. I tried this the last time we had a leap year...with building houses from scraps, got a little further than half way and burned out big time. The circles seams much simpler, perhaps I have the stamina for this. With the little houses, I was always trying to get a head, instead of just quilting one a day in twenty minutes I was tried for an hour....or to get five done. Slow and steady wins the race. Lesson learned.

So I am starting this circle adventure on Jan 3rd, here is a link to the project...Quiltyfolk Quilt 365.

My first block, far from perfect, what a good way to practice applique.

But I would dearly love to try and and make a hour glass quilt like this one featured on Barrister's Block.. So maybe I will try to do one-a-day of these hour glass blocks also.

This post of her's was so inspiring! I guess I lean towards more traditional antique quilts than I thought. So many lovelies!

I tried making some little hour glass blocks to see what I could get out of a two contrasting 6" pieces.

Turns out I could get 8 little ones easily.