Circles and Squares

Some people have commented that part of this quilt looks familiar but not quite like one they saw someplace.  I posted  a post last month that I got a pattern from Bunny Tales, the pattern is called Yo-Yo’ville but I kind of changed it up and wonder why I bought the pattern to begin with!   As you can see at the link I kept the body of the quilt kind of the same.  The change I made in it is that they have all the color squares on a diagonal setting where as I kind of zig-zagged them around a bit.  After I got the pattern I decided that the house border was not “me” that is why I am thinking of appliqueing circles on the border.  The house border is cute, don’t take me wrong it is just not the type of applique I do – I don’t do “cute” very well no insult to the designer intended as we all have our own taste of course.

I have the border sewed on to the body of the quilt.  Now I will take a break from it and then decide if I am going to applique circles on it – just plain scattered.  Here is what it looks like now.  It is 100 x 100 inches and I have no space to lay it out completely on the floor without moving furniture even more than I did!  So just use your imagination to picture it completely flat!

Tried to get most of it flat for the photo, but just not enough room.

a close up of one of the corners so you can see the strips in the border better. The aqua strip is from the Dutch Treat quilt -- I had a lot of left over fabric from that one and it will be included in a few quilts down the road I think The yellow is a Michael Miller Fairy Frost fabric - I have a red and an orange in the same line but when lined up together I didn't like them for it.

I tried to get a better photo of it laying on the bed but I don't think it really helps any. The circles that are on the main part of the quilt are about 1 1/2 inches I think -- the ones on the border if I do them will be about 2 to 3 to maybe even 4 inches - maybe a combination of both sizes and just scattered around. Or I could just leave it and do a nice quilted border or something like that? I will decide later. Like I say I need a break from it and will be working on other projects for a week or two I think.

Block 4 Row 10 Insanity Revisited. Made this easy block this morning.

We are still being warned of a possible ice storm for Thursday late in the day and snow on Friday.  Each day they change the outlook a little bit.  Yesterday’s report sounded bad so this morning we moved the motorhome to in between the house and the work shop where it is protected from trees.  Where it is normally parked is by some pine trees – if we get ice we could have broken branches and do not want to chance it.  Luckily the area Mike had to drive through was dry enough and he didn’t sink in to any mud — we have had a lot of rain in recent weeks and it is very muddy in places.  We are ready with firewood and a generator in case we loose power – the refrigerator is full (well be plugged into the generator if needed) so I am ready – now lets keep our fingers crossed that it passes us by!!