Modern Circles + Baby Quilt

I made this mini for our guild's silent auction, to be held at our upcoming quilt show, February 13 through March 9, 2018, at Dakota County Historical Society Museum, South St. Paul, MN.

It was totally inspired by Cassandra's 9-Patch Circles at The Not So Dramatic Life blog.
I made a similar one myself in 2016, inspired by a pillow in Modern Patchwork magazine:


I love Cassandra's idea of extending the circle with matching threads and a lot of stitching. I used various Aurifil and Bottom Line threads to match, and white Presencia in the bobbin. Here you can see why longarmers have a general rule of the same color thread in the top and bobbin: dots! But that was more bobbin winding than I wanted to do.

I put tabs in all four corners so the purchaser can hang it any way up.

I also slipped in quilting this baby charity quilt for my sister over the weekend.

She bought her fabrics at Tuesday Morning. Who knew that was a place to look for fabric?! I quilted it with "Butterfly Garden".

This is our favorite baby quilt pattern, "Simple Gifts" by Modern Quilt Studio. My sister is also making baby quilts for Jack's Basket.

If you got snow yesterday, I hope you're getting shoveled out today. We had about a foot of snow! This is perfect quilting weather!
Grace and peace!!! ~Nancy

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