I'm working on a challenge our Guild President gave us, due in Sept. If we are a traditional quilter we were to paint, dye, stencil, use PaintStiks or do some contemporary thing on a quilt of any size up to twin. If we are a contemporary quilter we had to do something traditional. Well, I'm of the second group, so decided to do some hand applique. So this weekend I machine stitched around all my appliqued shapes. Next is fmq the background.