March 20,2021: “Circle Love”

Greetings dear readers! Today is the first day of spring and it’s a lovely, sunny day here in NH – feels so good! I’ve been doing a lot of appliqué and appliqué prep this week and have been sewing my quarter square triangles together on the donation quilt, so even though I’ve put in a lot of hours, there’s not much to show.

I’ve also been working on my March mini and don’t want to share it until the end of the month. I’ll give you a little “tease” though. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know that for a lot of years I collected Asian style fabrics and I’ve made many quilts featuring them. Right now they are out of style, but I still enjoy using them. I’m currently trying to organize these fabrics and here are just the Asian “gold” fabrics:

They are beautiful!! I believe they are mostly Hoffman and Kona Bay and I collected the golds because they make great backgrounds and accents for the colorful Asian prints. So – I’m using bits of some of them in my March mini. And, of course, there’s hardly been a dent in the collection!

This past Sunday, the 14th was my birthday – 72!! The days, weeks, months, and years keep rolling by and I’m trying to cherish every minute. Al made me a fabulous Osso Bucco with polenta dinner:

And a cake. Maybe next year we can have a family get together!! We got our second vaccines the day before yesterday – so glad!

For the first time ever, the daylight saving time change was on my birthday so I lost an hour of it :). My birthday also falls on Pi Day: 3.14…….. Maybe that’s why I’ve always had an affinity for and love of circles. I’ve used circles in SO MANY quilts, either as the main design element or as added detail, so I decided to share pictures of these circles as the feature of my blog post today.

A block from my Mariner’s Compass quilt – not sure why I haven’t made another quilt with compasses as I LOVE them!:

Indigo River- center circles featuring vintage indigoes, plus the moons over Mt. Fuji:

Some of my doll quilts featuring circles:

My Asian quilts featuring circles:

My Japanese quilts featuring circles:

And a potpourri of other circle images in my quilts:

That’s a lot of circles and it doesn’t include my current sunflower project! It also doesn’t include several of my quilts that use “fan” designs, which are really partial circles!! Yes, I think being born on Pi Day has had an influence on me!

Be kind, be grateful, and cherish each day, Gladi