Dear Readers,
When my adult children got home from visiting their father's people for Thanksgiving they said their Uncle Dwight, who was battling cancer, was always cold. Well, even though we are not legally bound, those are my people, and none of my people should be cold since I can make them a quilt.
So I went to my stash and started looking at what I have that I could quickly turn into a recliner sized quilt. I found a flannel layer cake in manly colors that I bought, years ago, then did not really have a plan for it at the time... so I got online and found the company does not make layer cakes of flannel anymore, but I found someone on Etsy that had some of the same fabric brand. I had decided that I would make a circle magic quilt like I did for Sue when she was battling cancer. But I didn't have enough squares in the layer cake to make it big enough to be a man-sized recliner quilt. So I bought the only color that had enough yardage to give me enough circles to make the size I needed from that Etsy store. BTW Missouri Star has bought the rights to the template, so if decide to make one, check their website.
So once the fabric arrived I cut it and all of the neutral sides using the circle template. Once the edges of the circles are folded over it makes a square, and since Dwight was cold a lot, I cut scrap batting into squares to go in the center of each circle.
Once I got the circles made, I sketched out a pattern for the brown yardage circles and the layer cake circles. Then I put them out on the bed to see if I liked the color arrangement. I played with the color arrangement a bit and when I found one I was satisfied with, I moved to the next step.
