I'm not sure what to call this quilt. I was inspired to make it from a Craftsy class by Heather Thomas. Her class was focused on the quilting. Her circles appeared to be layers that weren't really pieced.
I wanted to practice curved piecing and also some foundation piecing. Each circle is created using 4 wheel blocks with a quarter circle in the center and a variety of pieced quarter circles around them. I used printed fabrics from my stash as well as gelli printing some solid fabrics to get tone-on-tone designs. The graduated colors are lighter under the red circles to darker under the yellow ones. I thought making some of the quarter circles have larger centers and mixing them gave it more interest.
It was really fun to put together. I finished piecing it a few months ago and then put off the quilting. That was what the class was about but by then I'd moved onto other interests and hadn't quilted much. When I finally started, I loved the quilting process for this. I kept changing thread types and colors enjoy the experimentation.
I am definitely better at quilting things with curves than more angular designs.
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