Showing posts with label Pinwheel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pinwheel. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

David's Pinwheel Quilt


Here's the Pinwheel Party Quilt Along.  The cat is there for scale (yea, right...she just wandered into the shot).  I did two of each of Anina's blocks.  She put together a block-a-week project which was supposed to look like this. That would make a nice baby quilt...but my nephew is a large-grown up.    The sashing pinwheels drove me crazy.  Then in the end, I had 13 extras...which I used to make this quilt wider for a queen size (82x93ish).  
   My big lesson was the difference between black fabric.  Hopefully, only I will notice the difference b/w black, dark black, and charcoal.  I did machine quilting in 1" strips, top to bottom( Left to right in the photo)  Love it. It gives the traditional pattern a modern feel.  And I ended up with a 1/4" binding. I had planned for a 1/2", but ran short (barely enough as it was).  It took extra time as I had to hand sew the binding, but I really like the end result.