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Ready to participate in this giveaway blog hop? Ok, then… here’s my prize!
In keeping with the theme – and my own special skills <big grin> – the winner of this giveaway will receive a collection of 25 fall-inspired appliqué blocks. Use them in wall hangings, table runners, or large quilts; accent pillows, cushions, and other small projects; repeat one motif several times, or mix and match… as you wish!
To enter, simply leave a comment on this post. Tell me what it is you like about autumn and/or appliqué. If you like, share what it is that interests you about this collection in particular. There will be only one winner for this giveaway, to be announced on October 15.
There are 8 businesses and 143 individual bloggers participating in this giveaway blog hop. That’s a HUGE number of opportunities to win something. So click on the little scarecrow in the sidebar and get ready to have some fun!
UPDATE Oct, 14. I just realized I won’t be around to take care of this drawing tomorrow, so am extending this giveaway until the 16th. Comments will close on midnight Oct. 15, so you still have time to leave your comment!
I am a self-learner. I taught myself to sew and to quilt. And I taught myself how to draw. I am learning how to dye my own fabrics and am dabbling with mixed media. I am a quilt designer and teacher, and design and publish my own line of quilt patterns. With this blog I would like to share the bits and pieces of my life.
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Your applique motifs look lovely. I’ve always loved the peaceful feeling that I get when i hand applique. It’s a calming technique. But I’ve also begun to do machine applique and enjoy that too-I get to see the picture develop more quickly. thanks very much for your giveaway.
I love the colors of fall. We were married in October and used fall colors to decorate. I love your appliques.
Fall is my favorite time of year with clear skies and crisp temperatures. Hand Applique is very soothing — and forgiving!! I enjoy your patterns very much.
Those blocks look adorable. I like autumn because we were married twenty years ago this month and it was a perfect autumn day.
I am enjoying applique more and more. I’m finding that I can create any “shape, size or pattern” with applique and it’s wonderful.
Simply – I love applique.
Happy Fall.
I love autumn for the fall colors that Mother Nature puts on and the display of one last hurrah before the long sleep of winter. Autumn beauty means that spring rebirth isn’t far behind. To me, applique is almost the same way. You take a pattern and cause it to be reborn into a spirt of creativity. The designer may have “made” the pattern, but it is your selection of fabrics and the way you assemble it that gives his or her design life. Sometimes a little change in color selection can make a pattern look totally different than what is shown on its cover. You could sit 5 people in a room and have them all make the same pattern, and they each would look different. Just like autumn is different in each part of the world with its colors.
That is what autumn and applique mean to me. Hope you have a wonderful day and get to enjoy a walk in the woods to enjoy nature at its finest.
Terri at the Drake’s Nest in Ossineke, Michigan
Fall is such a special time for me as each autumn marks yet another year in which I have been blessed to be cancer-free. I will always fondly remember the first “Walk for a Cure” I took part in with my five wonderful daughters so many years ago. Afterwards we all went to a park together and jumped in the mountains of fallen leaves, laughing like children. Yes, this time of the year is indeed special … I have cherished and loved 12 such autumns and many wonderful moments of “leaf crunching” with my beautiful girls!!!
I love Fall for its great colors, harvest and fun! It is a fun time of year when my favorite fruit ripens, pomegranates. I love pumpkins and decorating with them.
I love your appliques because they remind me of all of these. Thanks!
I love the crisp air of fall and colors of the trees. Being able to put out my quilts for the season.
I’m fairly new to applique and enjoy it tremendously. You blocks are a lovely inspiration.
Angie, Fall is my favorite time of year and my colors. I adore the warm fall colors!!! When came time to gut my kitchen and start over…golds and greens….with sunflower border and wall paper!!! I would love to make a quilt from anything you’ve made!!!
thank you for sharing your talent with us!!!
I love the cool weather, leaves, peacefulness in the air of fall. I’m much better at piecing but most relaxed to sit and applique or do hand sewing.
Would love to win this amazing giveaway!
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Autumn is my favorite season, I love every thing about it. Your applique blocks are wonderful because they capture the specialness of autumn.
I love the autumn. It is one of the season I miss most here in Western Australia. I’m from Upper Michigan in the US. I love the autumn colours, rusts, browns, reds, yellows and orange. Throw in the dark greens as well 🙂 Your applique blocks would provide me with some of the things I miss from back home.
Although fall is not my favorite season in nature, I still love it, because for me, temperatures in fall are getting better for quilting. Evenings are longer and I like to sit next to the fire place, doing some hand applique.
What a glorious time of the year! The colors are bright, the air is cooler, apples are loading down the trees, walks are comfortable, the dust from the farmers plowing hangs in the air, and the garden is giving their last goodies to us. Plus, my last name is pronounced autumn which I really think is a neat last name. Patti
To me Autumn is a time of memories, the same colours can be used in Summer Winter and Spring appliques but that row of blocks screams out Autumn. I can see myself as a child, kicking up the leaves, looking for conkers and chestnuts and acorns, piles of leaves neatly raked and diving into them followed by the dog. It was the one season I missed when moving to Australia so many years ago, after over 20 years we moved to a cooler State and Oh how I still loved Autumn, I laughed with delight as I saw the fallen leaves and ran kicking them in the air as my kids looked on in shock at seeing there Mum gone crazy but they soon followed me and still after more then another 20 years talk of the delight they had in that first Autumn experience.
When I took up quilting recently, I presumed I wouldn’t like doing applique at all. When I finally tried some, it reminded me of the hand sewing I enjoyed when young. So now, whenever I hand stitch, I’m back in my childhood.
I love autumn because the sticky heat of summer finally fades, and I get to wear more clothes to keep warm! I also love the crunchiness of the leaves falling off the trees.
I’ve got all that to look forward to, as it’s actually spring here now.
Fall is my favorite time of year because it sparks the beginning of the holiday season for me. As nature paints a new picture everyday with all the rich fall colors, it’s a wonder to step outside or drive by the Virginia countryside and marvel at nature’s color changes and decorations that appear on doors and porches. I love sewing with fall colors and themes and as I think about it, most of my favorite projects are completed in the fall. Applique is so relaxing and personally rewarding because only you know how much time you spent completing the applique. The blocks displayed will surely give way to interesting and colorful fall projects.
I love the autumn leaves – their colors are amazing!
Thanks for the chance
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Like like the autumn for it’s calm and yet vivid colours and the crisp air. That is, when it’s not raining 🙂 And the knowing of the winter and Christmas ahead. Somehow appliqué has become one of my favourite way to make quilts, and in the “old fashion” way as piecing blocks by hand. It gives me pleasure to do it by hand for sitting by the sewing machine sometimes stresses me out. Besides, my back doesn’t like it either. So looking at your row of autumn appliqué blocks makes me want to make blocks like that, NOW. 🙂
I love the colours of autumn and be happy again in your house
About applique I had lessons from Ted Storm and she gave me the
love for applique and now I am totally in love for applique. When I
look for a new quilt to make, 90% will be applique. Carla
what I love about autumn: the yellow/red leaves, indian summer, cosy evenings at home, freshly picked grapes
and about applique, can’t say what in specific, but it’s so very relaxing, at least for me, I love love love to do that
Fall has always been my favorite time of year – new beginnings, new school satchel, new classes – and since I started quilting, the richest colors! Great giveaway!
I love fall for the leaf colors I remember from living up north, and the relief from the summer heat it brings here to GA where I now live!
I love the colors of fall so much! I would love to win your wonderful blocks as I adore applique.
Micki
I love the colors of Fall, but am sadden that this signals the end of summer. I am not a huge fan of winter living here in Wisconsin. So I try to enjoy as much time outdoors during this beautiful time of changing colors.
I love your patterns, especially the hand appliques and am fond of doing fall themes.
The patterns are right for the fall season–last night at the football game I was reminded that it is fall and not indian summer anymore. I am ready to do some applique work and it looks like the perfect first project for me so hopefully you will pick me. Love your patterns.
The only thing I like about autumn to be honest is the beautiful colors it brings to the leaves ….but applique..now we are talking..I love to applique by machine but I am now currently trying my hand at hand applique for some fun…it takes some getting used too…the cold and wet is setting in here in NY and most of our leaves have fallen to the ground already due to such heavy rainfall….thanks for sharing your beautiful God given talents..blessings
Fall has always been my favorite time of year. The weather gets cooler and I can spend more time outside. The colors of the leaves when they change and the fruit of many plants set on. I love orange and yellow as well as the rusts and browns of the season. I do miss the smell of burning leaves, but my olfactory memory is strong. Would love to have some of your applique blocks to commemorate this time of year.
I LOVE the blocks. They are absolutely gorgeous. Fall is my favorite season (especially because of the abundance of apple cider 🙂 ) – I would love to make a fall-inspired quilt using the blocks.
I love autumn colours and the cooler weather means it’s time to light a fire in the evenings!
Gill
I love these fall applique blocks! I could definitely use these to make a cool table runner or quilt! Thanks for the giveaway!
I love applique because it’s the easiest thing and the most eye candy I know how to do. I love those blocks. Being as fall is my most fav season (smells-food, leaves burning, fresh air thru a window) I love sitting in my craft room, looking out my open window and taking it all in and getting ready for my grandbabies to come in their costumes.
I love fall because it tantalizes all the senses! It gives me a renewed energy to get things done before winter. I love the colors, the crisp bite to the air, the spicey smells and the lovely spicey tastes that all come with fall baking! Yum.
I’d love to receive those applique blocks. I like to applique; the quiet calming effect of doing it, but I’m not too good at it yet…I know, practice practice.
Thanks for participating in this hop!
freeindeed at myfairpoint dot net
fall is all about my favorite colors
Fall is my favorite trim of the year, because the colors are so adaptable to my home decor. We have warm browns, greens, burgundy, and rust colors throughout our house. Your website is the best one I’ve ever used and I have been a quilter for over 30 years so I know good when I see it!
Juilie K
Thanks for the chance! Excellent giveaway!
Your patterns are gorgeous!
I love everything about Autumn–the smell of apples, the crispness in the air. The gorgeous colours of the leaves.
It’s all good.
:o)
pippirose59 at gmail dot com
I really like all that you do, you have a great eye and ideas.
I also like your theme quilts.
Have a nice day.
Gisèle
My most favorite thing about fall is all the pumpkins. I just love em.
Love your giveaway it is wonderful. Hope all is well for you.
We just love the fall colours…
Thanks for the lovely giveaway!
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I love the coolness of fall days – so I can snuggle into my cozy home with a book and a quilt!
To me fall is the season of renewal, maybe that comes from all those years of starting school in the fall. And I love getting out the sweaters.
Autumn- I love the cooler temperatures so can get outside and work. Plus, my birthday is around Halloween. Applique-I’m afraid of it and so winning these awesome blocks would be perfect for me because I know I can assemble them into an awesome quilt (and I handquilt). Beautiful applique by someone else – that’s a winner. mlwright29 (at) hotmail (dot) com
I love these blocks…mainly because I do not know how to do this, and this could be turned into a very nice quilt or hanging. I love fall with the cooler days and nights. Thanks for the chance.
My favorite thing about Fall is the cooler weather. It is perfect snuggling under quilts weather! Thank you for participating in the “Fall into Fall Giveaway”! Not only does it give us the chance to win some pretty great prizes, but we also get to meet some amazing people! Thanks again and take care – Elizabeth
I love the crisp air on a fall morning,The bright color of the leaves before they fall, and how good a sweater feels on a chilly morning.
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I love almost everything about fall. Well, maybe not raking up the leaves. But watching the kids jump into the leaves and play with them is fun. Your blocks are so beautiful, and so much work has gone into them, it’s a very generous gift to give.
Haven’t done a lot of hand applique, but have done quite a lot of hand restoration of antique quilts. Recently I worked on preservation of a 165 year old Log Cabin quilt in the barn raising pattern, one of the first quilts of this pattern made in the U.S. It was made with wool strips, cut on the bias, edges folded under, hand stitched to a foundation quilt. The stitching was done with just one strand of thread as though the quiltmaker were doing embroidery. The quilt belongs to a good friend of my brother’s. I had the quilt down to the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, NE, several times. The curator of collections there and the ladies who do the restoration of quilts were EXTREMELY helpful to me in working on this museum piece. So I do love hand work on quilts, it is almost hypnotic to me. mary6850 at gmail.com
P.S. Hope there is a return to a more normal life and stability in your country after the events of the past week. My prayers to you, your family, and your country.