6th Dec 2015 Quilty 365 circles

About a month ago when visiting Karen’s blog http://karensquilting.com/blog/ I fell in love with her fossil fern circles that she is making for a quilt. I’ve been wanting to make a circle quilt for years using lots of my Japanese taupe fabrics mostly very old pieces from Kimonos. I made a couple then a couple more and I could not stop. Went back in to Karens blog and read more of what she was doing and realised there is a group making these circle blocks; it is called Quilty 365 circles you make one circle block a day??????? It was started by Audrey

http://quiltyfolk.blogspot.com.au/2015/12/quilty-365-december-linkup.html

A big thank you Audrey. I’m not sure that I will make one every day for 365 days but I have been making them every day since around the 9th Nov after seeing Karen’s fossil fern ones. SO that makes it almost a month of making these little gems for me. I have cut out just over 60 tiny blocks I’m using the same back ground fabric for all of these ones;

This is the kimono I’m unpicking for my background fabric it is a lightweight fabric which feels like linen grass. Quiet a stiff fabric but must have been lovely and cool to wear. Will try and take a close up of the weave.

and I have also got carried away with cutting out circles most of the the circles I’m using freezer paper to turn the edges over but there are some very very old (may be 80 plus years) fabrics which need something behind them so using wash away feezer-paper there. These will cover me till Jan 2016 if I’m to keep making one circle for each day since I started early Nov LOL. I complete at least one block a day and I just choose one at random and keep changing my mind which ones go together or how to place them on the square LOL. SO Thank you Audrey for a lot of fun over the last month and I’m guessing quiet a few month to come.

Playing with cirlces a passion of mine. Circles I mean LOL Below photo is showing most of the ones I have cut out so far. There are some empty spaces these blocks and circles are beside my sewing chair waiting to be worked on. Very few circles are turned under yet and only about a dozen are appliquéd on to the blocks. I will stop about here I think for now and prep the circles ready for appliquéing them on. DGD saw me playing around with laying them out and she asked if I would make some crescent planets????? She thought they looked like a sola quilt so I have made two crescent moons for her LOL

I’m still playing with these circles. In the group with Audrey they are cutting their square 4 1/2 inches. It is just luck that I cut mine 4 3/4″ Kimono fabric is woven at 14 wide so by cutting them 4 3/4″ I was able to get 3 blocks across the width of the fabric and now that tiny extra will allow for shedding while I make the blocks up and I will cut them back to 4 1/2″ before joining them up in to quilt top. I’m not sure about those orange ones though. I will live with them for a while and see.

Here you can see the different thickness of the threads used to weave this clot

A close up of the background fabric Here you can see the different thickness of the threads used to weave this linen grass fabric it looks thick BUT see below.

Here I'm holding the fabric up and you can see right through it, this shows you have light the weight is.

Here I’m holding the fabric up to the light and you can see right through it, this shows you have light the weight is and how wonderful it must have been to wear in mid summer.

My Beautiful LE has come to a stand still again as I’m not happy with my oak leaves again?????

Some creepy crawlies and whats flowering now in the garden.

He’s a bit like a Wetter ???

Creepy crawlies are back!!!!

Found this tiny beautiful beetle floating in the pool this morning, I rescued him and when he dried out he flew away! Just look at those colours!!!!!

Tiny ground flowers so sweet and old fashion, they are a local ground plant.

These followers are flying around th enlace at night time by the dozen so I'm glad we have fly-screens but they still manage to fly in.

These followers are flying around the place at night time by the dozen so I’m glad we have fly-screens but they still manage to fly in.

These are amazing frogs they just curl up any where and don’t care how close you get to them they won’t move this one is sitting on the ironing board?????