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A Lovely Year of Finishes - June

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Almost the end of the month and I just finished my June project for  A Lovely Year of Finishes at Fiber of all Sorts and Bittersweet Designs .  A tiny bit a head of the game for once. :)  This is the quilt I made from the  Modern Block 2 for May at Sew Mama Sew . I had a really hard time deciding how to quilt this one. I wanted the solid cream spaces to have some fun quilting inside. I am still really new at FMQing so I wanted to experiment.  I started with a walking foot and did a double line grid overall. Then I tried making circles with a free motion foot, then the BSR foot, and then....gave up and did all my circles with my walking foot. Yeah, it was hard but they look so much better than doing those big circles free motion. I need more practice is all I can say! I really need to work on taking better pictures. The bottom was just taken after taking it off the fence. Not sure why it was so dark. It has been stormy here off and on the last few days. I am try

Patone Emerald Challenge 2013

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I wasn't going to do it, nope I was NOT going to do it. Then while working on a few other projects I found this perfectly beautiful piece of fabric in shades of emerald. What is a girl to do??? I slept on it and kept thinking of circles. I have appliqued circles in the past but never pieced them so I just had to try one....then why not make 15 more??? Exactly my thoughts.  Ali over at  http://www.asquaredw.com/ is hosting the  and here is my mini: "Sequence" 16.25" x 18.25" Pieced circles with circle quilting