Even though I really wanted to make this quilt, inspired by a photo of crop circles I'd seen online, I was having second thoughts, considering all those curved blocks. But using Latifah Saafir's The Clammy 12" ruler made this project very doable for me. What a relief!
For backing, I pieced together even more of those stashed greens.
Quilting was a dense grid with a delightfully variegated Aurifil 50wt #3320 (Spring Green), which was subtle, blending here and showing itself there .... all quite perfect.
Crop Circles finished at 60" square, and was a really satisfying project. Actually, it's proof positive that if you get a quilt idea, you might as well go ahead and try it!
This quilt is my first finish from my Q3 Finish-A-Long list! Linking up with 2016 FAL Q3 Finishes Link-Up.
Your quilt is so fresh and pretty!
ReplyDeleteA very beautiful quilt! And congratulations on your finish :-)
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt! Every time I look at a different section, I see something new, and I love the way the curved shapes join up with the squares and rectangles. Great settings for your photos, too!
ReplyDeleteThis quilt is perfect!
ReplyDeleteAnd I really like the pictures you took!
KATRIN W.
Such a fresh and beautiful quilt! Green is one of my very favourite colours and the mix of the different tones is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteLove the quilt... bought the Clammy ruler after your first posting where you mentioned it, haven't played with it yet, but this quilt reminds me why I bought it, so I need to get busy and play!
ReplyDeleteWonderful quilt... it does look like crop circles!
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! Really reflects crop circles, and blends all those different greens so well - something I struggle to do!
ReplyDeletestunning! I love this. also, did you use the velcro to put it on the wall? how did it work?
ReplyDeleteSimply lovely.
ReplyDeleteLove the curves & adore the variety of greens!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great way to use up those beautiful greens ... love this quilt so much!
ReplyDeleteThis is gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteLove the name; it's perfect. Beautiful quilt.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely LOVE All pics - what a find! The look is definitely cool and eco friendly
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It's a winner! I'm not sure why I love all these greens so much, I'm not a green person at all! But these are perfect! I just realized I was using the title Crop Circles on my hand quilted mini...rethinking that one now!!
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful, I remember flying over eastern Washington once and it looked just like this. Just beautiful!
ReplyDeleteIt's brilliant, i love it. I hope to make a circles quilt someday but i still haven't mastered curves
ReplyDeleteStrangely I am very much drawn to all the greens in this - being Irish I shy away from all the greens as normally surrounded by it all the time! This looks very comforting and really brings the outdoors inside!
ReplyDeleteI love green! I have a question about the size - is this considered a lap quilt? A large baby quilt? I've made Jeni Baker's 60" square star-ish quilt twice and I've gifted them to short people because I didn't know about the size and what people expect. (My normal lap quilt goal is 50x70). Great great great geens!
ReplyDeleteIt's a great quilt! Love it!
ReplyDeleteI just love this quilt Debbie! I just love all the movement and the squares within all those circles. And the quilting is perfect. What an amazing finish!
ReplyDeletei truly LOVE this quilt! everything about it!!!
ReplyDeleteSew pleased I found your blog after seeing this on a facebook group we both belong to.
ReplyDeleteCheers
Del Allwood-Soden
Love this quilt Debbie. I've always liked looking at crop circles and fields from the air and have thought it would be a great quilt but have never motivated to make one. This is a wonderful interpretation and of course I love the greens.
ReplyDeleteI clicked from the newsletter (which I love!) to see this, and it is spectacular! I do not always like green -- have even been known to leave it out of scrap quilts altogether -- but here it really WORKS! Congrats!
ReplyDeleteDebbie, how did the clamMy ruler help you with these blocks? It's always nice to know all the applications of specialty rulers.thanks
ReplyDeleteI'm loving yellow greens right now! Your quilt is fantastic! No wonder it was well received on IG!
ReplyDeleteLove, love, love it!!!
ReplyDeleteLove the quilt. I do have a pattern to make a circle quilt. Your photos make me want to put it into my line-up of "quilts to do". I am a slow quilter so it may take a year to get to it.
ReplyDeleteLove the curves, great finish!
ReplyDeleteI love all those greens! Congratulations on your finish, and thank you, on behalf of the 2016 global FAL hosts, for taking part!
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