MARCH 18
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So does everyone have that one big project that just seems to go on and on with no real end in sight? My English paper pieced pinwheels is that project. It's been going on for ...oh I don't know... 13 years now?? I know I started it in a weak moment. I had finished the 4,200-piece tumbling blocks quilt and thought "Gee I haven't EPP in a while". What happened if I did an improv EPP using just one shape but played with value. At that point I never saw an art quilt improvisationally English paper ...
read moreA few more pinwheels on the design wall. Of course, I will not put them all up there since I need like 140+ of them. Still many more to go.
Lots of quilting in the works! I pieced a few more pinwheels for one of the customer quilts. He wants it by Christmas so I'm just piecing a few here and there until I get a few of these other quilt orders done. I'm also using the pieces for leaders and enders.
What a month! You would think I was trying to make up for the last two months, or something.
I got all my blue Pinwheel, Sawtooth Star, and "brick" blocks made for the RSC-2022 scrap challenge.
Then, I focused on the quilts I had started for my daughter-in-law's friend's twin grand babies. I wanted them to be similar but not identical, so I made Pinwheel blocks for one and Broken Dishes blocks for the other.
Huh. The Broken Dishes blocks made a secondary pattern that looks like - guess what? Pinwheels!
They're pretty easy to tell apart ...
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Make this Summer quilt with stars and pinwheels using your favorite quilting fabrics. An easy quilt pattern perfect as summer decoration!
Photo by American Quilter magazine. Used with permission.
I came across Moda Fabric’s Rainbow Garden collection and was struck by the brightness of the prints and the whimsical garden motifs. So, I set out to design a quilt that would showcase those fabrics I loved so much. Yes, fabrics are often the source of inspiration for my designs.
“Summer Groove” measures 73″ x 87-1/2″ with blocks that finish at 6″, 10″, and 12″. I wanted to include ...
read moreThis is a simple, scrappy quilt that I designed with different sizes of pinwheels.
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| Pinwheel Explosion (84" x 84") |
The pinwheels finished at 12", 6", and 4". It could be made with 8", 4", and 2", if you prefer [or other sizes, if you want to do the math
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As I was looking back at my Bonnie Hunter Mystery quilts (see previous post), I thought it would be interesting to remind myself of the other BH patterns I have made. I have included Bonnie's name for the pattern and my name for individual quilts [in brackets], if they differed. The year indicated was the year that I completed the project.
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| Carolina Chain (2015) |
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| Patches and Pinwheels (2015) |
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| Bricks and Stepping Stones [AKA Autumn Path] (2015) |
These were three of my first efforts. I was afraid of the small pieces, so I made the units a bit bigger than ...
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So I started to do my twenty min sew sprints on my pinwheel quilt this week. I have a goal to finish it by next September so I can enter into the fair. They have a category for all by hand made quilts. Nothing like a deadline to get things done. I've decided to do them in bunches and then visually lay out the bunches making the bigger and bigger. If I need some transitional wheels I can make them up.
It's slow progress but at least its progress.
So What Have You Been Up To Creatively?
Summer is just around the corner and that means it’s time now to start stitching up those beautiful, patriotic quilts for your summer picnics and Independence Day celebrations! Quilting has been an American past-time since the beginning days of our country, so celebrate the history of our craft and nation this year with a red, white and blue color palette!
If you’re needing some inspiration, we’ve gather five of our favorite patriotic quilt projects that would be just perfect ...
read moreGood day everyone. I wanted to post a very short, quick tutorial for anyone who is currently stitching pinwheels or wants to stitch pinwheels.
For the quilt I’m sewing, I needed to end up with a finished pinwheel, measuring 8.5″x8.5″. In order to accomplish that size of a block, I cut two squares each 7″.
Step #1 – With right sides together, stitch around the perimeter of the fabric unit, 1/4″ from the outside edge.
Press. This is a very important step. It ensures that when the fabric unit is cut, the half square triangles all ...
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couple of years. I normally would whine and apologized and be racked with some good ole fashion guilty but ya know what??? I've decided to be kind to myself. In the old days, it wasn't unusual to hear about middle age women having "nervous breakdowns" or empty nest syndrome or their husbands leaving them for a younger woman. At 54, none of that has happened to me. I've just had a bit of a creative pause. Even with that ...
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I've missed some weekly recaps so this is three weeks worth of stitching.
Gray is often a color that gets a bad reputation. Gray skies are seen as depressing or signaling an impending storm. When someone is referred to as “gray”, they mean they are old or infirm. But gray can be a truly beautiful color. A neutral color, it can be mixed with just about anything to mute and subdue the overall palette. Alone, it can take on the color of silver and coolness. When quilting a top that is a riot of color, it’s a great thread color that will blend with everything and not stand out. Our longarm machine ...
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