February Quilty365

I'm behind on my circles this month. Way behind. Finishing these will catch me up through February, a total of 118 circles. You can see only five are sewn. Ah, well. There are more Red Circle days in my future.

Circles to be finished for February

Since I'm so far behind, I decided to run some Google searches for inspiring circle quilts. Here's some eye candy - two whole fists full! Hopefully this will boost my energy to get back on track.

1. Malka Dubrawsky made Twinkle Twin. Such a happy quilt.
2. Karen Costello Soltys designed Japanese Circles on dark backgrounds.
3. Kevin Kosbab used a pattern in American Patchwork and Quilting to quilt Verner with two different sized circles.
4. Holly DeGroot designed at least two baby quilts of circle blocks.
5. Brigette Heitland created a sophisticated quilt with circles inside circles.
6. Anorina appliqués cheerful circles on black and white squares.
7. EDIT: I found the quiltmaker and she has a glorious body of work. Timna Tarr's O Happy Day and Portrait of Flora both juried into the 2011 Cincinnati International Quilt Festival. The colorful background squares of the first are just as effective as the circle in circle on black of the second. Such different styles. Which would you choose? 
8. If you haven't yet started your circles, Lulu has a pattern for Googly Eyes, an offset circle in a larger circle. Looks like eyes or olives, your choice.
9. Connie Brown mixed circles and squares in V-Spot Target Attack. 
10. Shirley made Bubbles II with circles that touch each other rather than being appliquéd onto single size squares.

Linking up to Audrey's Quilty365 for March. There are many great progress photos. Take a look.

Guess what? My computer is back. Hooray. And there's still a bit more time to add something to the Kaleidoscope of Butterflies link up Cathy and I started to celebrate and educate about these essential insects in severe decline.

Enjoy the day, Ann

Red Circle Days - Quilty365

Thanks to Audrey's Quilty365 I'm rediscovering hand applique. Like so many others, I sew one circle a day... and I'm up to date.

Some backgrounds are pieced; some circles are pieced.

Red Circle Days - Quilty365
through December, 2015

Some days there is too much to do to choose a fabric. Those are my "red circle days." One small circle for every day in a row I'm busy or sick. It reminds me of Red Letter Days although being under the weather is not exactly a "red letter" event.

Other people appliqued multiple circles to a single background. I think they are counting the backgrounds. I'm counting the circles! Is that too didactic? Or cheating? That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

See many more wonderfully inventive variations of this project at Audrey's Quilty365. There's also one more day to add your improv work to AHIQ, too.

Enjoy the day, Ann