EB Wallhanging Swap ~ Sent

This is the quilt I sent to Kirsty as part of the EB Newbie Quilters Wallhanging Swap. As I mentioned in one of previous posts, the block used turned out to be very apt for the recipient.

I originally chose a simple block from my 1001 patchwork designs book bible, called Indian Puzzle. I loved the simplicity of it & that it sort of circled itself, hence the name of the Quilt 'Circle of Friends'

I traced the block and in scrap fabrics attempted to foundation piece it and realised that I am still a complete newbie to foundation piecing, so ditched it with the intention of finding a similar block on my long awaited EQ6. After searching through the blocks and initially choosing either the exact same (or very similar block) to the one Kirsty made for Esther, I chickened out and searched for another as the curves frightened me in the original block.

Upon browsing I found the block I used which was called Monkey's Wrench & was really close to the original block I'd chosen from my book ~ the spooky part... Kirsty's blog is titled Monkeys' Quilts... well it was sort of spooky to me, the block called from the start and I responded.

For the record... I did not foundation piece this block - it is all pieced by machine. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out :)

Make sure you check out our communal blog ~ I'm about to pinch borrow all the quilts and post them all up :)