If you’re looking for the winner of the kit for this in the Whirl Into Winter giveaway, go to this post. Thanks, Debi, for organizing this. It was fun and I discovered a lot of blogs I had never been to!

A huge thank you to Uberstitch who contacted me yesterday and is sending me another piece of this glorious red for the Red Delicious apple core quilt! I am oh, so grateful! I am really thrilled that I’ll be able to complete that apple core quilt with the one red fabric as the red apples.

I have a series of apple core quilts planned now. Along with the Red Delicious (the beginnings of which are shown below), there will be a Golden Delicious, a Granny Smith, a Pink Lady, an apple cart (all apple colours), an apple pie which will have a scalloped edge done in a beige/brown sort of print that will look something like a pie crust crimped at the edges and who knows what else. I am spending altogether too much time checking out apple colours at the fruit stand. Most of them will be wall hangings, but Red Delicious is definitely going to be a good-sized lap quilt.

I love this picture of Lester. If you look closely, you can see a drop of water on his chin. He had just been having a drink of water before he jumped up on the windowsill.