Wonderfully paired as my partner lives in Des Moines, city I visit regularly as my French nephew got married and lives there. Like me she loves bright colors and log cabin. Log cabin has been my favorite pattern for many years. The quilt is paper pieced by machine and was inspired by Andrée LeBlanc’s work and Joan Wolfrom’s Colors wheel. Center medallion is 36 squares 2 inches side and 32 pieces per square. The pieced border is made with scraps from the center with 10 pieces per inch width and 3/8 inch height. The border is inspired by half of a template from Kimiko Friedl.. After a few weeks I was piecing, I realized that the same medallion I pieced in the past at normal scale 56 inches side, was already hanging on the wall of my nephew’s house in Des Moines....really not done in purpose. We decided with my partner that next time I will travel to Des Moines we will see each other and will compare both of them. I tried to make a study of the color wheel even if it was a square pattern and used complementary colors for the secondary design (the sawtooth of the gear). It has been a great experience to work on such a small scale and I hope that my partner will love my quilt. I quilted it with my brand new simply sixteen longarm that I received 2 weeks before and it worked well with all the multiple layers of fabric I had to manage. I pieced on my dream machine my BERNINA 770QE.