Our instructions were for a pot (template included) made of stripes and/or polka dots and filled with the flowers of our choice.
Here’s what I wrote in Barb’s notebook:
“I had an early peek at your cookie tin and breathed a sigh of relief when I saw that I would be doing an appliqué block. I’ve worked a lot on my appliqué and felt reasonably confident that I was up to the task.
When I received the tin and looked at the blocks that came before mine I was dumbfounded. They have been made with such beauty and creativity.
My simple posies will be the Plain Jane’s in your garden. The star on the pot is a reminder that you are one of my quilting heroes.”
Look at the detail on this flower basket.
There are two blocks missing from the photos as the person who had the tin before me kept them behind to finish.
The completed project was hung in the 2013 Quilt Show.
The challenge piece at Hands Across the Water was to make a tea cozy. I’ve never used a tea cozy and, at first, I thought I would skip the challenge. But then I remembered that I had extra material from the wall hanging, and I knew that Brian and Diane were tea drinkers so, voila, I had a purpose for my challenge. I gave the tea cozy to Diane for her birthday this year.