What an incredible journey Julia has been on with this quilt.. I love hearing about the backstories of the quilts that people make from the patterns I sell! This is Ring Cycles by Lessa Siegele, available in my shop. Reposted from julia.renken Day 1 of #50daysofhandquilting2020. I basted my "Gathering of Nine Patches" quilt a year ago. Now that I've finished my hand piecing projects for #50daysofhandstitching2020 it's time for me to switch to hand quilting. The red and white nine patches in this quilt were made by a group of six friends with whom I visited the Infinity Variety red and white quilt exhibit in NYC in 2011. We saw a Rosalie's Garden, aka Jack's Chain, quilt at the American Folk Art Museum on the same trip, and decided over a meal to swap nine patches and each create our own version of the antique quilt we saw. Our last stop on that whirlwind trip was at City Quilter at which we each selected a red fabric (six different ones) for our NYC red. Five months later in 2011 we swapped nine patches. The nine patches are machine pieced. I chose the version of the piecing design called Ring Cycles by Lessa Siegele and hand pieced the rest of my quilt. Now, nine years later, I'm starting the hand quilting. #50daysofhandquilting2020 #slowstitching #jinnybeyerfriends #jackschainquilt #rosaliesgardenquilt #ringcyclesquilt #2sewtextile #2sew #ringcycles #circlequilt https://www.instagram.com/p/CHCQ8kInyPv/?igshid=aafr1m04lbbr