I do not often hand quilt, but the record low temperatures that have frozen most of Arizona created the perfect climate for stitching while buried under a quilt.
I used a CD to create the pattern for the circles - and hand stitched each of them onto a piece of wide muslin.
Quilting the muslin was easy on the fingers as it did not have any seams. I have added additional quilting within some of the circles - mostly because it is still too cold to be out from under a quilt!
If anyone is interested, the tutorial can be found at: http://destashification.com/2013/01/16/cd-quilt-tutorial/