Thanks to those of you who encouraged me to free-hand quilting designs, in response to my post about what a hassle templates were, I had good luck tonight. I was thumbing through a book of quilting patterns looking for something I might like to hand-quilt on each block of a project I'm piecing right now, and found one I though would be perfect, but it was too small for my 12" blocks. So I got a dinner plate, a cereal bowl, and a drinking glass to measure out the concentric circles, then used a straight-edge for the wheel-spokes between the inner and middle circles, and freehanded the feathers between the middle and outer circles. No problem! I can do this repeatedly with a graphite pencil or chalk on the quilt sandwich, no problem!
It was fun. Just wanted to share.
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