Black Quilt Project

While I was working on Mike's quilt, I realized I lacked a lot of experience in machine quilting, etc., so I decided to make a practice quilt for my son Joe for his birthday. He's 17 and WAS sort of a little hippie, so I went with a mandala design. The pattern for the mandala came from eQuiltpatterns.com and it is called Almaaz. This is done from foundation paper piecing and is super easy to do when you get the hang of it. Don't get me wrong, there was lots of seam ripping and hair ripping!

The rest of the pattern came out of my head on the fly. I designed the rest of the quilt around the 2 colored blocks.