Circle of Friends Quilt

I'm back to share some more projects I've completed in the last few months! Shocking, I know!

Last year, my quilt guild had a friendship block swap. Each member selected a color and made a "Circle of Friends" block in their color for each member of the guild. We then swapped blocks with everyone. With our blocks, we were challenged to design our own quilt. I took my inspiration from the circle of squares in the block and replicated it for the layout of the blocks in my quilt. 

I used my own quilt block as the label on the back of my quilt. 

I then emphasized the circle theme by quilting a circle design on the quilt.

This was a fun project and an easy one to complete - not like the last two quilt guild challenges that I still haven't finished because I made them too complicated and time consuming. One of these days, I'll circle around to those and finish them!

Happy Quilting!

~Sharla

P.S. I planted zinnia seeds in my flower garden for the first time this year. This is my first bloom. I can't wait for more blooms to open!

Catching Up On UFOs

I am still amazed at the speed with which time keeps racing by. Here it is, wheat harvest time in western Kansas again! We started cutting wheat yesterday afternoon on the farm only to receive rain last night that has stopped the combine today. So, I thought it would be an opportune time to post a little about what I've been up to the last few months.

At Christmas, my daughter purged her crafting corner and sent home a couple of her UFOs with me - like I NEED any more UFOs! One of those 'unfinished objects' was a Sudoku quilt top made with Kansas Troubles fabrics that was complete except for a border on two sides.

Once home, I sewed the last two borders on for her and began searching for some backing fabric in my stash. That's when I realized I had my own Kansas Troubles UFO - blocks from a quilt guild Block Of the Month sew-along. I dug them out and there were 11 completed blocks. I sashed 9 together and they became the backing for my daughter's Sudoku quilt (or her Sudoku quilt became the backing for my BOM). Either way, it was a pairing that was meant to be! And it completed two UFOs in one quilt.

But, I still had two remaining blocks from my BOM. I decided to make them into a bench pillow, which turned out pretty great. 

I took both completed projects back to my daughter when we visited her in Texas for the total eclipse in April (which, by the way, was so awesome and really hard to describe the experience, except to say "You just had to be there"!).

I'll try to hop back on here and share some more projects I completed this spring in the next week or so. 

Until then -

Happy Quilting!!

~Sharla