Easter and Spring Blocks

I joined a block swap on my old blog site. We are to each make a Spring and an Easter 1.25" block to trade with each other.

I finished the easter one a couple of weeks ago. I found a line drawing I liked and just turned it into an applique... that's all applique patterns are anyway.

I finally finished my Spring one last night. I like it. It reminds me of the first quilt I ever made back in 1970. Of course I didn't consider myself a quilter back then, I just wanted the quilt and the only way to get it was to make it. I sewed in general a lot back then, made all my own clothes, etc.

I'm teaching myself to needleturn applique and the practise has really helped. Now if I could just learn to take a non-blurry picture I'd be all set.