Three kinds of emerging circles

I see a pattern emerging here.

I've been playing with a bag of hand dyed scraps my mother gave me.

Yesterday I was inspired by a quilt at my group string blog

and I started piecing arcs on a paper foundation

And I kept piecing

To get the beginnings of a Double Wedding Ring quilt.

It's all overlapping circles

just like these Cathedral Windows I've been hand stitching.

I'm also playing with little pieces of hand dyed fabrics,

this time in shades of pink and purple and blue

with unbleached muslin frames.

Those are the same ingredients for my Winding Ways blocks

although I cut these from yardage.

I don't have a big plan for any of these.

I'm just sewing and watching the circles emerge.

I'm linking up to WIP Wednesdays at 

The Needle and Thread Network 

and Freshly Pieced.

A long-awaited Friday Finish

Sometimes it takes a year to get around to something

and 10 minutes to actually do it.

This baby quilt has been finished for months,

except for pulling in a few threads,

which is a job I avoid.

With the impending birth of a friend's baby,

it was time to actually finish it.

I made this quilt from width of fabric strips

left over from other projects, mostly in blues.

Here's a view of the quilting from the back.

I decided to quilt in a label,

and made it by fusing some batting to a white square,

writing the details in pencil

and then quilting it with 28 wt thread.

I had lots of binding left,

so I bound it and sewed the whole thing on the back of the quilt.

The baby isn't coming until March,

so I couldn't include the baby name.

I avoided other tasks yesterday and made 12 more Winding Ways block.

I'm planning on cutting a few more, and getting this a bit bigger.

The blocks finish at 8 inches, and my plan is to get it to throw size.

I'm linking up with other Friday finishers 

via Amanda and Sarah and TGIFF.

More circles emerging

I've added a few more winding ways blocks to the design wall.

I'm using the quarter inch foot with my Juki and it's working well. 

I'm planning on making at least five more to get a square,

but who knows?