Round and round the circle

Several months ago I started cutting into my hand dyes, making circles from some and 8.5 by 11 inch backgrounds of others. I wanted to practice my applique skills on small quilts, just the size for Alzheimer's Art Quilt Initiative, and perfect for taking along.

So far I've done six little quilts, and I photographed the tops before I basted them to the backing and batting.

I'm planning to put corner triangles on the backs to hang the quilts, and then they can hang vertically or horizontally. I'm having fun playing with the colours and I'm liking the applique. I gathered these around templates I cut with my circle cutter for paper, pressed them, popped out the template, and pressed again, and then appliqued them to the background. I'm going to hand quilt these minis free hand, so they'll be take along projects for the next while.