I love pinwheel quilts. I've made miniature pinwheel quilts. For the life of me I can't figure out the trick to perfect pinwheels every time.
I found a box of black and white HST. I don't know what my plans were. Obviously a pinwheel quilt of some sort. Some of the hst don't have enough contrast for a good pinwheel, so I trashed them. At first I thought, I would just put them in my orphan block box. But I sat down and started piecing some pinwheels.
First one didn't match in the center. I wish I didn't cut up that dark print.. I really like it.
I took this apart twice, ripped and put back together. Now that I look at the photo, I realize I can just sew 2 more sections together correctly, and I can have 2 more pinwheels.
After several tries, I finally got it pretty much right. I think the rest will go into the orphan box.
3 comments:
I agree HST's are difficult. I like to make my squares about 1/4 inch bigger all the way around then trim, they turn out OK that way.
I'm making a baby quilt with half square triangles but I cheat. I bought that Triangulations program and print out the papers and make a bunch at one time on paper and cut them apart. Easy Peasy.
Kimberly Einmo has a ruler and book to make pinless pinwheels. She is Birgit friend.
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