After moaning and groaning through two pieced rounds of the Indiana Bulls Eye, I decided to make an applique border that included symbols of Indiana rather than simply continuing to make bulls eye rings. The peony is the state flower and the cardinal is the state bird so I will add these to an applique border adapted from a Jeana Kimball design, using the same colors as the rings. What comes next is squaring the circle but here is what I have so far, laid out on my kitchen floor (yes, it really is bright blue).
It already lies pretty flat but once it is blocked out with backing and batting it will be very flat. This circle is quite large so the finished quilt will be a decent size though probably not true bed size.
I can't recommend that anyone purchase the pattern I bought. There are so many errors and missing instructions that unless you already have an extensive background in sewing and foundation piecing the pattern won't do you any good. As an example, the instructions for the third plain ring, not shown here, end on page 5 with "then" and when you flip to page 6 there is no more text. The pattern for the first plain ring is missing entirely. Anyway, this isn't for the fainthearted at all and the pattern isn't much help.
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