Double Circle Quilts.

When I made these small baby quilts, I used a lot of Kona White for the background fabric.  You can read about making these quilts, here.

When it came time to add the binding I used Kona Pomegranate.  I decided "go bold, or go home", would be a good policy; and it jazzed up all the whiteness.  The quilts each measure 37.5" square.  These are finishes number 4 and 5.

My blog photos have been popping up on Pinterest, without acknowledgements.  I think the watermark might help, that is if I remember to add it!

May your bobbins always be full,

A lovely stack of quilts, just waiting for bindings.

My long arm quilter has a couple of vacations planned.  Right now, she's in Connecticut, visiting her daughter, and in March she and her hubby are going on a cruise.  Before she left for CT, she concentrated on getting some of my quilts back to me.  She still has two!  She's a wonderful gal and I really like working with her.  Before I found her I tried four other long arm quilters.  Two weren't any good, and two quilted the wrong pattern on the quilts I'd entrusted to them.   

The top one and the bottom one are commissioned quilts, I'll get them done first, and get them in the mail, once payment is received.  The larger center quilt is for my daughter, Carrie, and the other two are just because I made them quilts.

May your bobbins always be full,

Double Circle of Squares, 25 Patch Block

Through Pinterest, I found a great block called Circle of Squares, posted by Geoff of the ToeFeather blog. He also posted a great tutorial, over 2 1/2 years ago.   I thought I'd make it my own, by making a Double Circle of  Squares.  I'm really happy with the result.  I used left over bits from the Dolce quilt I just finished.

Here's how I made mine.

You'll need (24) 2.5" x 2.5" squares.  This is a great time to fussy cut if you want.

Strip-piece (12) of the squares to 2.5" WOF, strips.

Cut the units apart and press toward the print.

Still stip-piecsing, attach a 2.5" strip to the side, and cut apart and press.  In the original block, these were 4 patches, I change them up because it was more logical, to me.

Take the four remaining units, still using the strip-piecing method, attach a 1.5" strip to the right and left.

Cut apart, and press to the center.  These units were not in the original block, but I thought they were necessary to keep the movement going for the outer circle.

You're almost to the end of the strip-piecing.  For the remaining units, attach a 1.5" strip to all four sides.  Do this a step at a time.  Attach a strip, cut apart, press, and repeat three more times.  Left, right, top, then bottom.

Lay the blocks out for final assembly.  I first put down the inner circle, 9 patch, then the outer circle, making it a 25 patch.  You can see there was one more patch, a plain 4.5" x 4.5" square, for the center.

A couple of more photos  of the block.  The block measures 21" x 21", so it will finish 20.5" square.

May your bobbins always be full,