I thought I'd post a few pics of my current work in progress, which is a quilt from the "William Morris in Applique" book by Michele Hill. Here's a link to what the quilt from the book looks like:

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I started this quilt a few months ago at a quilting retreat for our quilt guild. I worked on it some more this week while we were on vacation at the beach. It was nice sitting in the room, listening to the waves roll in on the beach as I busily cut out and fused shapes. :) I'm going to be going to India week after next on business for a few weeks, so will take stuff with me to work on it there, too.

I've got the center medallion done, as well as 6 of the 20 outer blocks. After I finish the other 14 blocks, I'll start on the borders of those poppies. The quilt in the book is 78" square, but I want mine to be bigger, so I'll be adding an outer border of those poppies as well. I'm fusing the shapes and then machine stitching (blanket stitch) around the edges of the shapes. The medallion square has already been stitched, the other 6 blocks have only been fused.

Lots of work still to do!

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Very nice ! What an interesting hobby for a traveling man. Perfect fabrics, too

Beautiful blocks! Love the fabrics :D:D:D

Oh, my gosh! These blocks are so beautiful, and I love your background fabric. I have to start an applique for a block of the month club, and am trying to figure out a background fabric- so you have inspired me! Thanks!

WOW, that's stunning! It's going to be a beautiful quilt!

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! The colors are magnificent!!

Stunning! It is one of my favorite lines but I don't think I will dabble with the applique. Thanks for posting.

the quilt in the book looks very good. your blocks look stunning!!!

Beautiful Blocks!! So, how much more beautiful fabric will you buy while in India LOL...............

Those are beautiful!! I bought the book months ago but I haven't summoned the courage to tackle anything yet.

Very nice! And thanks for the link, I looked at her site and then her links and discovered that the William Morris Museum is not far from my husbands house in England. So I've just informed him that we need to visit next time we're "in town".

I love that book. Thanks for sharing your blocks.
Have a great trip to India.

Kat

I am in awe of the beautiful work you do. Your quilt is going to be absolutely stunning.

what a work of art! have been eyeing this, thinking aboiut adding it to my bucket list. after seeing your gorgeous pieces, i will

I only wish that some day I will have enough confidence to try something as beautiful as that. You have a great start. best of luck with it. I bet it will be a inspiration to many people.

Beautiful Eddie!

Stunning! I may have to get that book.

ooooohhh. ohhhhhh. Sorry, I'm drooling over this quilt. mmmmmm. lovely.

WOW !!!!!

Beautiful blocks!!

What a beautiFul quilt that is going to be. I love applique.

It's lovely. This is my kind of thing - I am going to do a search for the book. Beautiful work.

Wow!! I love applique but doubt I'd have the patience to tackle this. You must love what you do. Well done. Hope you put up pics when its done.

Beautiful, simply beautiful! Have a great trip! I will be watching the progress on this one!

Beautiful as usual, Eddie. Can't wait to see more. Have a safe trip.

Awesome work

Eddie, I hope you know that everytime you post you cost me money. I am an applique nut and when I see yours I run out and buy the patterns.

I am trying to decide, are you a "masocist" or just a "perfectionist"? I can't imagine doing all that precision cutting, not to mention all the work to come. How are you going to applique those shapes? Please show your progress as you go. It is bound to be primo when done.
Duh, I see you have already said you are gong to machine blanket stitch the shapes down. Can't wait to see.

This is just beautiful and inspiring. I hope to try this technique one day.

Love your quilt, working my way through the book too. I met Michelle Hill at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair last Saturday, she was working on a quilt from her second book and there were several others she had made on display as well. She does not use stabilizer when she appliques with a blanket stitch and her work was stunning.

I love your choice of fabrics, I've made a number of the blocks into cushions using Michelle's fabric range but love your choice especially the background fabric- just may have to tackle the poppies next. Can't wait to see the finished article.

Cheers from Oz

those are gorgeous.

Eddie, I'm making my first quilt but after this one is finished I was thinking about making an applique quilt. I'm taking a class starting July 7th. Where did you find the pattern for this quilt? It's lovely and your colors are great. I love it! I'm new to quilting and don't know diddly about anything, YET!. But, I'm an adventurous kinda gal and I'll try anything. LOL. I'm currently making a hand stitched paper piece hexagon quilt and my first few blocks are a little shadey looking. I was going to take them apart and redo them but since the quilt will only go to family one day, I hope, I thought why not just add those little problems to my journal as to what NOT to do the next time and keep going. It will be interesting chat one day when I'm older and grayer, lol....and hopefully, have some grandchildren to share my tales with. Thanks for sharing.......Babs

I just love the fabrics you are using. They really make the design pop

Oh gosh...that is gonna be a beauty! I need to check it out further...enjoy your traveling!

Beautiful work! I guess I haven't looked at that book close enough. I put it aside to get fabric and finnish other projects.

Your work is inspiring.
Thanks for sharing,

Kathleen AKA Quilter68

Eddie your blocks are stunning. I love the fabric choices and look forward to seeing this gorgeous quilt!

Beautiful...good luck with your project

It will be breathtaking when finished. But all that applique around all those curves and tiny spaces would drive me N-U-T-Z!! More power to you. :thumbup:

beautiful