February/March 2010 Challenge: Circles! (Page 1)

Design a quilt using circles as a theme element. The quilt may be a circle, the blocks may be circles or contain circular motifs, the quilting stencils could have circles, or you may do anything else to use circle motifs or suggest the feeling of a circle.

--- Barb Vlack

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Barb Vlack Reminds Me Of A Dream Catcher	Barb Vlack Folk Art Gallery	Pat Tribbey Circled Squares	Winnifred Masson Japanese Inspiration
Designed using Custom Set with no borders. "Thread" lines in Applique Motif block drawing create the illusion of a stretched netting. St. Charles, Illinois, USA	The absence of the border on this Custom Set quilt gives it a free-form look. This would be splendid to do with felted wool applique with embellishments! St. Charles, Illinois, USA	South Florida website blog	A version of the Drunkard's Path block is the foundation for this quilt. A circular applique design adds a little extra.

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Joan Lucchese Hanging with the Big Wheels	Joan Lucchese Blue Compass	Jane Turgeon Coffee? Tea? - anytime	Jane Turgeon Pinwheel Fireworks
An original design. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area. I blog about quilting at: blog Stop by and leave a comment so we can meet virtually!	I am from the San Francisco Bay Area. I have a quilt blog at: blog Please visit and comment so we can meet virtually!	This kitchen clock is at the time for my coffee maker to start in the morning. The coffee cups are coloured with fabrics from October 2009 'Sort of Circles' fabric collection. The inner clock will double as a colour wheel. I have the fabric, now I just have to make it!	I've always liked the pinwheel fireworks Dad would nail to a post and light after dark. The colour here is entirely in the quilt stencil. This might be fun stitched in metallics.

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Carien Verbiest Happy birthday -plate	C.M.Verbiest Tulip - plate	Claudia Chang Giant Dahlia Variation	M Light Untitled
Rotterdam the Netherlands	Rotterdam the Netherlands	from Taiwan

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Anneke de Weerdt rings and rounded squares 1	Anneke de Weerdt rings and rounded squares 2	Beth Brandt Geese Circling the Daisies	Carol E. Skrube Hooked on Olympics
I drew a block with partial rings and rounded squares Rotterdam, The Netherlands	Same quilt with an extra border around the center part. Rotterdam, The Netherlands	I have always liked the look of Flying Geese Blocks in a circle so used that as my starting point.	Sheboygan, Wi. 53083 I have been watching a lot of the Olympics so that was my inspiration for Circles.

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Daphne Stewart Sammy Circle sets off for adventure	Daphne Stewart First President, Forty-Second State	Denise Smart Easing In	Dianne Gronfors Key Lime Pie 2
My best critic asked how I would sew the circle that has escaped the quilt's borders. I said this one was just for drawing fun, not for sewing. But then I thought about it and decided a person might give the stray circle its own little hanging loop ... This quilt was easier to design than it was to name. Sunnyside, Washington	My odd habit is browsing an on-line encyclopedia with my pre-breakfast coffee. I was learning about my own state the day the circle challenge was issued. Washington has mountain ranges in the center, the northwest and the far southeast. It also has a deep rain forest in the west. My family has lived in all parts of the state but the area we live in now is described as "an eastern semi-arid desert given over to intensive agriculture." The state has led the country in apple production since the 1920s. This is the first and only state in the country to elect women to both Senate seats and the office of Governor. This is good and would have been better had they been of a different political party. Sunnyside, Washington	Ease on it to circle peicing. This fun quilt is made with the Drunkards Path block, 2 print fabrics and two striped fabrics. Plano Texas	I was surprised at the difference it made to just reverse the colours for this version. Bracebridge, ON, Canada

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Dianne Gronfors Key Lime Pie 1	Donna Carlson Compass medallion	Eileen Hoheisel Lazy Angle Quilt	Eileen Hoheisel Lazy Angle Quilt 2
I was working on the Drunkard's Path block for a group challenge and it worked well for this month's EQ Challenge. Bracebridge, ON Canada	southern Alberta, Canada. EQ circle quilt challenge Feb2010 I've been wanting to try sewing a compass block, so this challenge is a goot start toward that.	I have no idea what to name this. This is something I came up with playing around with the blocks that can be made using the Lazy Angle Ruler. I would like to one day make it. I love how it appears to be curved pieces, but they are all straight cuts. It is best viewed with all the lines off. Cushing, MN, USA	I have no idea what to name this either. It is the same blocks as the other, but instead of an on-point layout, it's a horizontal layout. It's amazing how different the two look. Cushing, MN, USA

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Elaine Stone-Arthur Tulips Around the World	Elaine Stone-Arthur Fractured Circles	Estelle Langslow Rainbow Spirograph	Hélène Laparra Impossible circles variation I
Northern Virginia	The circles of lfe are fractured, but connecting. Added to the quilt were quotes from President Thomas Jeffereson. Northern Virginia	Perth, Western Australia. The quilting patterns remind me of the many hours I spent as a child using circular pattern makers.	Here I tried variation on the impossible figures of M C Escher using the cricle as reference. Then I disposed and colored them like some pop artist would have done. Cheers from Switzerland

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Hélène Laparra Impossible circles variation II	Janet Bangs Bud balls	Janet Bangs Circle of Geese	Jacquelyn Jacobi Bubble It
Here also I used the impossible circle of MC escher; I put different ones as hangers and for decoration. Cheers from Switzerland	Guildford, England I drew this block from a picture I had seen in a "block a day" calendar. I then played around with the symmetry tool to find a setting that I liked.	Guildford, England I drew the blocks used in this quilt while working my way through Fran Gonzalez's EQ5 book. The process certainly taught me a lot and I had fun playing with various settings.	Victoria, British Columbia Experiments with Symmetry and different border styles.

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