A Little More...

 A morning guild meeting, followed by a few errands and

most of my day was spent. When I got settled back home, I went to the

 studio and spent a few more hours working on the my applique' block.

I placed my Sharpie marker in the frame to give you an idea of scale.

The finished blocks are all 15" square. and will eventually be transferred

to the fabric, but all the layouts are worked out on the paper pattern first.

 Here's a little closer look for you.

I chose some of my favorite Wisconsin things, and will do a bit of

improv "on the fly". I've decided it needs some acorns in there, too,

so I'll change out some of the elements to fit them in with the oak leaves.

When I adapted this block for our quilt, I wanted our state bird - the robin,

a badger, violets and those beautiful orange lilies and purple coneflowers

 that grace the roadsides all summer long. I know that it's the dairy state,

but I didn't want to add any more "critters", so I stuck with this design.

I've found that I'm really adept at making the small circles! 

The ones you can see are all 1/2" circles. Cool, huh?

This is going really well, and I can see meeting my goal to have 

the layout all finished by our guild meeting next Tuesday night. 

 If I can do it, I know the rest of those talented quilters can, too.

You know, it's good to set goals for ourselves from time to time.

Have you set or chased a goal lately?

I'd love to hear all about it.