This one — from another class with Jennie Rayment — was lots of fun to make! The upper circle has 36 tucks sewn into it; each tuck was then twisted in opposite directions several times to get the effect seen here. The lower circle has only 18 tucks; these were brought together and tacked. Finally, the tucked points (Babies in Baskets) were added around the outside. After machine quilting the “rays” emanating from the circles, I added the little four-petaled “flowers” (I believe they’re called Folded Fabrications) with a button in the center of each. The quilt measures 32″ x 23″ and was machine pieced and machine quilted, with some of the twiddling and fiddling done by hand.
This is a detail of parts of the circles:
