Vicki's Crafts and Quilting

Another panel jumped off the shelf and said 'Make Me'!  So I couldn't resist the sweet request, LOL.  I had made up the same panel a few years ago, so why not use the same concept for this one. 

After squaring and trimming the panel itself, the green border was the first to be added. Once the pinwheels, which finish at 4", were made I figured out what size the red spacers in between them needed to be.

Things just go smoother if you have already done them

 before, this was a pretty quick make.  

For the quilting, I did continuous curve in the red pinwheels along with straight lines in the red spaces. Ribbon candy in the green sashing and piano key in the outer holly berry border. 

The hook swirl on the panel itself, I know you aren't shocked by that!  In fact I bet you could predict that;)  If it isn't broke don't fix it!

Lest you think I never do anything besides quilting...

Hubby and I had picked and froze apples from our tree in September.  And last week we made apple butter.  It is usually a lengthy process, like all day.  This time, once the apples were mostly thawed I put them in the blender.  That way they did their cooking faster and the process was shortened by 4 hours. We don't use this very fast so we mostly put it in half pint jars which will all go in the freezer.  I probably will have enough for two years here.

Linking with Design Wall Monday and Monday Making.