Seeing all those lovely pictures taking shape, I'm afraid I've been cowardly with my applique. I started off wanting to do something bee related (red flowers of course) but somehow it morphed into something entirely different. It's just 5 separate shapes. There was no way I could machine round them so I hand stitched using embroidery thread and a heavy chain stitch - I haven't wielded a piece of embroidery thread since I was 16 and I quite enjoyed it (actually the green and yellow thread must be ones I had when I was 16). The quilting and binding are a bit crap - I made an error in calculation and couldn't join the binding with a diagonal as I would usually do. Anyway, warts and all here it is. It measures about 13" x 10"
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