280 Enchantry
Lattice work and the illusion of curved seams! Great in any color combo!

398 Mystical
People will wonder how you sewed it!  Secret? Paper Piecing!  Super in any color combination or setting!

598 Sage
Wonderful in any color combination and oh! the settings.   Super quilter friendly design!

609 Wizards Dresden
Very easy to do and the settings will come together like magic!  Wonderful borders and other effects to be created!

432 Druids Circle
This variation of the Wedding Ring creates a fascinating, interlocking Celtic Knot!

084 Applegarth
Named for Merlin's beloved home and containing a "magicians" trick of it's own!  Margo's made the "wizards" hat easy to see but can you find the fish?
 

612 Magic Dresden
You'll believe in magic when working with this design!  Very easy and it creates some of the most wonderful all over settings you've ever seen! 

410 Crystal Vista
Super fast and easy with great visual impact in any setting. 

598 Sage
Wonderful in any color combination and oh! the settings.   Super quilter friendly design!

564 Castle Chambers
A wonderful design that even novice quilters will enjoy!  Great in any setting or color combination.
 
 

Archaeology has shown that this site might have originated in the very same period as Vortigern. The original late Roman settlement with just a palisade was replaced with a native type of stone-walled homestead with circular huts and outbuildings in the sub-Roman period. Imported pottery (Eastern Mediterranean amphorae, Phoenician red slip dishes), some of it bearing the Chi-Rho symbol points to a rich, Christian household, datable to the 5th and 6th century. The dry stone rampart, which encloses a ‘citadel’ of only 1 ha., is up to 10 feet (3 m.) thick. Other ramparts further down the hill may have inspired the tales of the walls collapsing again and again (though there are stories in Snowdonia of a ‘city’ sinking in a bog). Even less substantial but enigmatic remains of ruined walling are elsewhere on the hill, which are probably either medieval field revetments or sheep walls.

The mysterious pool can also be found on the summit of the hill. This pool, now little more than a hollow, was once probably a cistern to ensure the water-supply. Broken pottery may have originated the story about the dragon-containing amphorae, vases or eggs. What excavators in 1910 believed to have been the walls of Vortigern’s tower, sadly turned out to be ‘just’ the remains of a 12th-century Norman keep.  The ‘citadel’ is linked to the outcrops by the first rampart wall, which also encloses the Pool.

The sources tell us that Vortigern, hard pressed by his enemies, fled westwards into Wales. He stopped at several places, looking for a secure fortress to withstand those seeking him and await better times. The most famous of these castles is Dinas Emrys in the north of Wales. 
Then starts the most famous story connected with Vortigern. The King orders his masons to build a fortress (or a tower), but the structure collapses again and again overnight. To enable the building to keep upright, Vortigern’s advisers, druids or magicians advise him to sacrifice a ‘fatherless’ boy, whose blood then needed to be sprinkled over the walls. This boy, when found, proves to be a prophet. The boy is the famous Merlin, whose reputation (and of course that of King Arthur) may very well have been the sole reason that we still remember Vortigern at all! In the earliest version though, Merlin is called Ambrosius or Emrys:
Emrys then declares the origin of the collapsing walls, a pool in which two dragons lie. After much digging, this proves to be true, and a white and red dragon are found. These dragons fight a fierce battle, with the red being victorious in the end. (This is how the Red Dragon supposedly found its way onto 'Y Draig Goch’, the Welsh flag.
Vortigern, impressed with the accuracy of Emrys’ prophecy, assigns him the fort, which still bears his name.