What a huge relief that this 84″ x 84″ top is finally done and out of my sewing room.
When a friend showed me 20 applique blocks she found in her mom’s house after she died, I jumped at the chance to figure out how to put them together. My blind enthusiasm and eagerness to help quickly disappeared once I took a closer look and discovered that the blocks were not all the same size and were not square. Uh-oh.
This project languished in my sewing room from late 2022 to early February this year in a one-step-forward-four-steps-back fashion ...
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