I’ve been waiting for some black fabric to arrive so I haven’t made any progress on the Stars & Stitches quilt. More on that in my next post.

I’m ready to add my name now to quilts that I create so I ordered quilt labels like the picture below. These are folded in half and stitched into the quilt binding.

While I’m waiting for the fabric I turned my attention to appliqué. The pictures below are my first attempt and I’m pretty pleased with the steps and the outcome. The first picture is the pattern and the second is the finished block. I used this fantastic tutorial by Julie from The Crafty Quilter — thanks for her clear instructions with lots of pictures. I want to use appliqué in a small way on some baby quilts - perhaps and elephant or a giraffe or . . .