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A very happy New Year to you all!
Susan Taylor Propst is the author of a series of wonderful books on floral appliqué. Here on the blog, we previously featured her titles Beautiful Blooms and Another Season of Beautiful Blooms.
For this month, courtesy of Martingale, we have Susan’s third book, Nature’s Beauty in Appliqué.
Subtitled “Pretty and Practical Projects,” this book gives instructions for a variety of different things you can appliqué and sew, from table runners to place mats to tote bags to zippered cases.

Campanula Neck Roll

Tulip Place Mats

Petunia Case
Also blooming in the designs are irises, daffodils, dahlias, and ivy. Add in Susan’s instructions for her methods of needleturn hand appliqué, prepared-edge hand appliqué, and fusible appliqué, and this is one fantastic resource!
If you’d like to enter the drawing for Nature’s Beauty in Appliqué, please leave a comment below by 7:00 p.m. California time on Saturday, January 5.
Open to U.S. and Canada mailing addresses only. Heads up! If you get this in an email, do not reply… it will not enter you in the drawing. Leave your comment on the blog, on the internet. To get there, click on the title of the post in your email feed.
See you Saturday!
Kay
By Kay Mackenzie
Comments
70 Responses to “Nature’s Beauty in Appliqué”
I really like the placements and have a plan for them already. But I also like the other projects you have shown. A lovely book that makes me look forward to spring. Thanks for a chance, and happy new year.
The Tulip placemats are stunning, and omg a petunia!!!
More beautiful things to stitch!
I love Susan’s designs! I would like for 2014 to be an applique year :)
Susan’s designs are lovely! I love the petunia glass case!
As soon as I saw the placemats, I loved this book. Surrounding ourselves with Nature’s Beauty is the right thing to do. So pretty.
Happy New Year! These are gorgeous! It looks like springtime on your blog. Thanks for the chance to win.
Happy New Year to you! It looks like a lovely book :)
Looking forward to seeing the lovely projects in person…maybe I’ll be the winner? Thank you for the review and chance to win the book! Happy New Year!
Just some lovely patterns! Would love to win this.
thanks!
Kat
I love everything I see about the book.
I love the glass case particularly. Thanks for the chance.
What beautiful projects!! I might want to recover my Nook after seeing these :) Hope I win the book. I see lots of really useable projects there!
Confession, I have always found myself get anxious evertime I have attempted appliqué. This book maybe my salvation so I can expand my skill. Thanks for the opportunity!!
This book has already inspired me. Now, I hope to win it!
Happy New Year! Thank you for sharing all the year through. The flowers and the projects in this book are very neat looking and would make very pretty gifts–thinking ahead to this years birthdays, etc. and something for me. I’d definitely like to win it.
I love the tulip placemats. They are very beautiful!
Happy New Year. The book looks fabulous.
I’m so excited about Appliqué. I’d love to win it.
What a wonderful book. I love to applique and this has some beautiful things to make. I especially like the petunia glass case. Thanks for doing this and Happy New Year.
Wow – I am already beginning to plan next year’s Christmas gifts, and this new book will be the mainstay of ideas!
What a nice way to start the new year. Thanks for the chance to win this wonderful book.
My passion seems to be applique and this would be a great way to start 2014. Thanks for the starting the year with this wonderful book.
I love the campanula on the neck roll and the fabric used in the project. Happy new year
I always read the blog, but don’t often enter for the giveaways. These flowers are so beautiful, I have to enter this time. Thanks, Kay for sharing this book !
Kay, thank you for having this giveaway. The designs are beautiful!
What a wonderful book. Thanks for the chance to win.
Thanks for the chance. I love applique and these designs are so pretty.
I love the Petunia Case. I would make that for sure!
Gorgeous. Love floral applique. Those diagonal tulip placemats are great.
Wonderful patterns.. I like the Petunia! I am a rose person myself.. (My middle name) What do you have done in a rose??
I love the placemats and in fact just pinned them on Pinterest just yesterday. I would love this book. Thanks for the opportunity to win. liz at 2bquilting247 at hotmail dot ca.
I love all of these floral designs. Would love to have the patterns.
Oh my, those are lovely and just what I’d need to kick start my applique life again!
Love the look if all items shown. I think my favorite is the neck roll.
Happy New Year, Kay. If you say this book is a fantastic resource, sign me up. I can use all the help I can get :)
Happy New Year! This is a very lovely book. Thank you for writing it, and for the chance to win one.
I would love to win Nature’s Beauty in Appliqué by Susan Taylor Propst. The project ideas are very tempting!
Wow..some really beautiful applique pieces. Projects would be so fun to make!!
The appliqued flower designs have so much depth from the shading of multiple fabrics and look so elegant! The projects are amazing!
I love Susan Taylor Propst’s books and her new book looks to be as wonderful as her first 2. I love the Petunia Case! Thanks for the chance to win a copy. Happy New Year!
Great patterns. love all the patterns esp. the placemats. This book on my bookshelf would be well used.
Happy New Year!!!
Not sure if it’s ‘cuz purple’s my favorite color, or iris are my favorite flowers, but I’m totally in love with that table runner! All the other ones are pretty, as well, but the iris has a special place in my heart.
I love how there are so many PRACTICAL projects in the book, to spread the beauty all around the home. Thanks for the chance to win it!
I love iris’s and would love to win this book.
Thank you!
What a great book? It looks like it has some easy and beginner projects too. Thanks for the chance to win!
I think the tulip placemats are beautiful!
Happy New Year Kay! Another gorgeous book with lots of interesting applique projects in it, thank you for showing it to us.
Happy New Year, Kay! These are all lovely. Love the petunia case.
Would love to win this book. I would like to do every project in this book. Thanks for the opportunity.
The glass case is beautiful. I’d love to see it with a tulip. I love flowers, wish my applique was this good.
It all looks so pretty. I love applique. Happy New Year from Oklahoma, USA. crystalbluern at onlineok dot com
I really enjoy appliqueing and this book has some beautiful designs. I would really like to try these flowers. So pretty. Thanks for the chance.
Great designs and uses for applique. This is a wonderful book!
It looks like a beautiful book!! Great designs!!
It’s currently 10 degrees outside right now and it is so nice to see this touch of spring. Would love to win this book. Happy New Year!
Oh my gosh! Her applique is soooo beautiful I’d be almost afraid to use it! Thanks for the opportunity to win this book and try to make something as striking as hers.
Beautiful floral projects in this book! I would love to win this. Again, thank you for this opportunity. HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Thanks for the giveaway! It looks like a great book! I love the cavalcade of kittens. Too cute!
I’m making pillows for a friend right now and that neck roll will be a perfect beautiful addition! Can’t wait to get the book. So many beautiful flowers!
Gotta love those pretty flowers! I would def. make the Petunia Case if I won :)
What a beautiful way to begin a new year. Thank you for the opportunity to win such a fantastic prize.
I love Susan’s Nature Beauty Appliqué book. Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy!
What a beautiful book. I just adore the tulip placemats. Those are gorgeous and the way they are done is great as they aren’t the usual type of design.
I would love this book. I had not seen this before now.
This book looks wonderful. The projects are so beautiful and exciting to create. Would love to have this book to make these projects. Happy New Year To you and thank you Susan for this amazing book
A would love to win this book it has a lot of wonderful treasures to make. Happy New Years! And thanks for the chance to win a other great book.
I love these flowers ! Thanks for the Christmas kittens .
Flowers are my favorite to applique-what I wouldn’t give to win a copy of this book! Thanks for the chance.
Applique and nature go together perfectly; the book looks lovely. I’d enjoy a new addition to my quilt library–thanks very much.
Looks like a beautiful boo. Always looking for more flowers and learning a new appliqué technique! Wish me luck – Sue in Florida
Love to win this book . Table runner an glass case is to die for.
Lovely appliques. Would love to win this and make the projects.
Love the appliqué, I would love this book, it seems I am more and more into appliqué !