Quarter is an extended-width design that began as one-quarter of a circle. I thought this would work best as an extended-width design so that I could get every other row to alternate directions.



If you are new to extended-width pantograph designs, I'd encourage you to visit this blog post, which provides more information about this unique format. These designs are different than traditional edge-to-edge designs and may require different configurations or settings with your software. 

I like this design because of the simplicity of the basic shape, yet when traveling in different directions, it creates interesting texture and movement!

I was excited to try this new pantograph on this quilt top because it's just a touch "busy" with many bright colors, the secondary diagonal element (fields and furrows layout) created by the placement of the log cabin blocks, and the stars. I liked the idea of a small-scale quilting design to add texture, fearing a more complex quilting d...

Turnstiles is a simple design that delivers great texture! After I completed this top, I knew I wanted something cute and small scale to use for the quilting.

I struggled with what to call it, so I turned to social media for help and got many great ideas! Two years ago, the design we released was called May Flowers, so even though this is another May release that could very well look like a flower, I knew it needed to be something different.

Another popular name suggestion was Propeller. It makes so much sense, but since we have a design called Propel, I didn't want to confuse them. Whirligig was another popular option, but there are so many other Whirligig pantos out there! 

This is where I shout out Christi on Facebook for suggesting Turnstiles! Thanks, Christi—I liked it right away. It's one word (which I like), unique, and contains 'tiles' as part of the word, which calls back to some other name suggestions because the angled lines do look like tiles.

Perhaps t...