My first foray into appliqué was a king size quilt that I
saw on the cover of a quilt magazine. I
had tried hand appliqué and found that it wasn’t for me. But I did love the look of this pattern so I
decided to tackle it using the freezer paper and machine method. I’ll never forget staying up all night in the
lobby of the old Executive Inn in Paducah, waiting to be able to register for a
room at the hotel for the next year’s quilt show, and glueing down the edges of
480 leaves on their freezer paper foundations.
The pieced blocks were easy but those appliqué blocks nearly drove me
insane.
The quilt pattern didn’t show a border so unartistic me had to dream up
something. At the time I thought that a
border of leaves with an occasional flower bud would be great, but looking at
it now, it looks to me like a string of Christmas lights. Funny how our perspective changes over the
years. 
About the same time I finished the quilt, I got involved in
a round robin and used the appliqué block as my center. I was absolutely floored at what a wonderful
job was done by each of the three girls who worked on a border and how
beautiful the finished wall hanging is.
It hung over my bed for many years.
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