eo-6 Crop Circles - Final Quilt

The Crop Circle quilt has the same red fabric for backing and binding as the earlier quilts in this series.

For the quilting, I used a red thread for the back and an off-white thread to trace each circle.

eo-6 Crop Circles - Top Assembly

The top assembly process was just one of deciding on what colors go where.

Not sure about how to quilt this, though.

eo-6 Full Circle

Once the quarter circle blocks were assembled, I made half and the full-circles. It might have been possible to go for assembling rows or columns, but I wanted to try to achieve a series of light and dark circles. This required me to layout the full top and it was more convenient to assemble the circle blocks first.

You can see that the block alignment is not perfect, but I am still more interested in the colors than the perfection of the seams. 

eo-6 Cutting and Block Assembly

The pieces for the quarter-circle blocks were cut using acrylic templates that my husband was willing to make for me.

To begin with, I cut 4" squares, and then marked the profile of each template on the squares. This approach seemed to speed up the cutting process.

I then assembled the blocks by just ensuring that the two pieces were different colors. One of the most helpful tools to have handy when sewing curves is a pair of blunt tweezers to help pull the final bit of the fabric around the bend as it approaches the feed dogs on the sewing machine.

eo-6 Crop Circles

The sixth quilt in the Eastern Oregon quilt series is essentially a sky-view of crop circles. It turns out people grow things in the high desert. Irrigation is key.

The design will be a simple 12 x 16 of 3.5" quarter circle blocks.

The starting point of the actual doing of this quilt was a fabric audit. I wanted to see what was remaining of the fabric in terms of color and yardage.

The photo above shows all of the remaining fabric. I tried to arrange everything by tone. Two of the original colors were fairly depleted, but I had more than enough fabric remaining for two final quilts.