"Say What?" Blog Hop - My Day

 This month I'm participating in the "Say What?" blog hop.   The prompt we were given for this hop were as follows:

"We have all heard that our quilts speak to us, so just what are they saying?"  

Share a story or show a project or technique that you can't believe you tried.   Or post about a quilty word project.

Here are the bloggers who are posting their projects today:

Wednesday April 19

 

Quilting Gail

Voormans Quilts

Quilted Delights

The Quilted Snail (me!)

Ms P Designs USA

Kathy's Kwilts and More

Last year I had seen a tutorial posted on Instagram here Pieced Circle Tutorial for an easy way of sewing pieced circles in a quilt block.  The method looked easy, so despite the fact that I've long sworn I wouldn't do pieced curves in my quilting (pieced enough curves when I was making clothes!) - note....that was wouldn't, not couldn't....LOL, I decided to try the method in the tutorial.  These blocks were the first ones that I made with the tutorial 

I wanted to expand on the technique and decided to make one large center medallion type block for the center of the quilt with multiple circles.   This is the result of my experimenting.  And yes, the circles are pieced and overlapping.  =)

And here are the small blocks and medallion that I have made so far.   I still need more blocks, but I need to decide on what size quilt I want to make (thinking large lap quilt), and then decide on layout.

Many years ago I was in a heart block swap with a a small group of quilt friends that I was a part of at that time.   One of my dearest friends made this beautifully embroidered block for me as a part of that swap.   Unfortunately, like so many of my swap blocks this has been sitting in a tote with the other blocks I received from that swap.   With part of the challenge for this blog hop being about words in your quilting, I decided it was time to pull this out and finish it up.   

Backing for the wall-hanging was from a piece of linen sent to me by the same friend who had made the block.  Seemed appropriate to use it here.

Gratitudes:

1.  For the procedure planned for my dad has been cancelled.

2. for the great group of people that I work with.