I haven't made a lot of progress since I last posted. I've started sewing the blocks of Hunter's quilt together. I have, I think, 4 complete pinwheels, and 5 more to go. The last time I made a Roman Stripe quilt, I sewed half the pinwheels going clockwise, and half going counterclockwise, and I was so tired of sewing, because it was all hand-pieced, that I just went with it. It's not that bad, it's just not that great. It's not one that I would bring out as an example of my best work, but it's still warm. It's not holding up well, though. I tied it instead of quilting it, and it's starting to show its age. When I used it to make a pallet for Hunter to play on at Live Weapons, it got pretty torn up, which is okay, it's fairly old, and not my best work. After I finish Hunter's quilt, and garb for Diamond Wars, I may make myself another quilt.
My other project has been embroidering trim for Neale's Mongol coat. I'm going to do a band around each sleeve. I think I'm almost done with the first one.

I have to say, one of my proudest moments of the last week or two was explaining to a Laurel and two apprentices (arts and crafts equivalent of a knight and two squires in the SCA) that yes, a complex design can be successfully appliqued, and explained my bastardized English paper piecing technique. In English paper piecing, you make a paper template for each piece of cloth, cut around it, turn the seam allowance down and baste through the whole thing, press it, whip-stitch the pieces together, then pull out the basting stitches and remove the paper. It's usually used with a pattern that I think is called Grandmother's Garden, or something like that. It's a pattern of little hexagons. Anyway, that's how I applique. I make a paper template, pin it to the fabric, and cut around it, allowing 1/4 inch seam allowance all the way around, then I turn the edges under, and baste them down. I iron the pieces well, and then you can pull the basting stitches out, remove the paper, and they should be creased so that the seam allowance stays down. Then, you just sew it onto the background.