Hi everyone!
                   I got a late start to the day, but I've been trying to be productive.  I finally got a quilt top into the shop...my first!  Well, not my first quilt top, just the first for my shop.

This was a little different than any other top I've done.  I usually make simple, pieced tops, but this one has some applique. 

     A couple months ago, in my favorite fabirc shop , I found the most beautiful fabric with bugs all over it!  I am NOT a bug lover!  But these were so beautifully done and astonishingly detailed!  The little moths and dragonflies were all wearing little coats and vests and you culd see their eeeeeeeeyyyyes!  I was enchanted and bought some yardage, not knowing what I would ultimately do with it.  Well, I couldn't help cutting the bugs apart, and iron-on appliques went floating through my head.   Well, long story short, this is where the dragonflies wound up.  (The Luna moths are on a block set with some gorgeous hydrangea fabric.  They can be seen in my shop )

     I meticulously cut them out and backed them with Wonder Under, and applied them to the FINISHED top.  Now....that's very important.  Finished.  It's important because it goes hand in hand with that old saying, "Hind sight is 20/20."  I have to call this quilt top a OOAK.  Yup.  O N E   O F   a K I N D.  Because I will never make another. 

   Look at the moths....they are disbursed over seam lines.  That's right.  I gleefully laid out the top, arranged the moths, and pressed them into place.  THEN, my friends, it DAWNED on me that, in the sewing-down process, I would need to rotate the entire top around and around for EACH little dragonfly!  All with invisible thread!  You know.....the thread you can hardly see??? 


   Anyhow, for those of you who can envision this, you will quickly deduce WHY this is a OOAK!  Oh, I will likely do another quilt top with moths.  Or butterflies.  BUT!  I will apply them to the individual blocks and THEN  assemble.  LOL!  We quilters have fun, don't we?