Amongst the Trees

It's been a stressful week, but today I awoke light-hearted and optimistic and that's the best way to feel, in my humble opinion.  So I worked on my Kay Mackenzie design, "Lollipop Grove" and finished the quilt top.  I added the little AccuQuilt dog and just love him.  I need to get the cat die.  My sun could look better, but it's fine.  I'm going to move on to making blocks for all of the QAL's I've joined.  I hope your Saturday is as nice as mine has been.

God Bless.

My "Playground" Activity

I may never win the lottery but I am very happy when I have a win in blogland.  Recently my joy was to win Kay MacKenzie's new book, Scrap-Applique Playground.  It's a neat book with fun designs.

  Thank you to Kay http://www.allaboutapplique.net/ and to Susan Brubaker Knapp http://wwwbluemoonriver.blogspot.com/ on whose blog I was chosen the winner. 

With my penchant for jumping into projects feet first without fearing how deep the water is, I began making the cover quilt, "Lollipop Grove".  It's my first landscape quilt and is going pretty well.  Kay's designs in this book use patchwork/crazy patches for the appliques.  It's very relaxing, and I love to see my little scraps getting used up.  The lollipop treetops are fun to make.  This is what I've done so far.

I've just placed my patches on the background to see how I'm doing, so this is not the final layout.  Lots more trimming and shaping to come, as well as the sun, birds, and small "gumball flowers" to make.  This is Kay's quilt:

Designers do have the best scraps, don't they:) 

 I hope you are having a wonderful Saturday.

God Bless.