Pinwheel #8 project advances

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  Today I am reporting some progress on my current project, a pinwheel pattern.

Beginning of this project, and link to the pattern source on Quilter's Cache, is HERE.

Careful pressing is needed for these blocks, with the last seam pressed open:

My blocks came out a little larger than 10.5 inches unfinished.  Better than too small, I suppose.  I trimmed blocks but this led to some chopped off points, as in the brown triangle at the bottom:

Well, probably no one will notice in the final quilt.  I set the blocks with white sashing and blue repro fabric cornerstones, and sewed the blocks into pairs.  Here is where we are today:

Laid out on my floor, in a 6 by 5 setting.  I still need to sew these together.  Then, think about borders.  I have leftover fabric from other quilt projects that I can use for this project.  The pieces are 2+ yards long, of varying widths.

The true green fabric in the middle is the narrowest of the 4 fabrics.  I'll have to unfold and measure these remnants carefully.  Maybe an inner narrow border, and a wider outer border?  We shall see.

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A finish for the end of the year

 Good Day, and welcome to my blog of quilty happenings.  I have a finish to report.

I have a lot of reproduction fabrics, including fabrics from the 1930's and 1940's era.  Time to use these up in a quilt.

I got a book on quilt patterns from the Kansas City Star, by Barbara Brackman, and focused in on a pinwheel pattern with a secondary pattern that forms.  It was shown in a vintage quilt dating to the 1930's or 1940's.  Perfect, even if it had templates (I'm more of a rotary cutter user).

I started cutting fabric and sewing in September 2019, as described in this post.

I finished the top in October 2019 as described in this post.

I sent the top and backing out to be quilted by a local long arm quilter.   Then, well, COVID happened, and it has sat ever since.  It's time to finish it.

I trimmed and bound it this past week.  The border is actual feedsack fabric, but I did not have enough for binding, so an unbleached muslin fabric was used.

Colorful pinwheels, and you see the secondary pattern, in green?  Looks good at this distance, yes?

Well take a closer look:

Some of the green strips do not line up well.  I worked very hard to get the eight triangles to meet nicely in the pinwheel, and so the green strips either worked, or didn't.  I did not feel like ripping and resewing, and could not see where this would help anyway.  Just smile and keep on going!

The quilt is about 55 by 77 inches, and does not have a home yet.

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