CIRCLES IN SQUARES TABLE TOPPER

A while back I started work on what was to be my first quilt, however, it was put aside to make way for all of my holiday projects, etc.  When I finally took the blocks out a couple of days ago, I decided I no longer wanted to make them into a quilt. After playing around with them, I decided to use these nine as a table topper.  As you can see, I cut circles out of four layer cake blocks and then stitched the circles to a creamy print 10 inch background block; and, then the blocks (with the circles cut out) were stitched on top of matching creamy print blocks. I used a blanket stitch on all of them and did it so they would fray a little bit after washing. When I saw Connie's (Quilting by the River) spiral quilting, I thought that would be fun to try on the circles (thanks for the inspiration Connie!!).  I decided to create a 'flower' in the center block by stitching an 'X' first and then curvy lines for petals and lots of spiral stitching for a great big center ...the center is partially hidden in the top picture under my pottery but the petals show...and the second picture shows the full flower. I still have many blocks left and just have to decide what I'd like to use them for. The layer cake I used is Collections For A Cause - Hope by Howard Marcus for Moda and the creamy fabric is Perennials by Kansas Troubles Quilters for Moda.