Raevenfea

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Posts tagged: Pinwheels

Hybrid Pinwheel Tutorial

Posted in Quilting

  • Applique
  • Organic Spins
  • Piecing
  • Pinwheels

Iโ€™m evidently stuck on designing with pinwheels lately, so when I was thinking about how to make the quilt currently titled “Organic Spins”, pinwheels popped to mind yet again. As the design progressed in my head, however, I realized that I didnโ€™t want a ton of seams in the background of the quilt. So, the idea of making a whole-cloth quilt with appliqued pinwheels came about. But, it still requires piecing part of the pinwheel together before being able to applique it on.

Last week, I played around with some scrap fabric to make a proof of concept. I finally cut into my fabric and started piecing at the Utica Modern Quilt Guild meeting/sew-together on Saturday.

Hereโ€™s the final product:

This one finishes at about 10.75″ across. Itโ€™s the middle of three different sizes Iโ€™m using (well, plus one much teenier size that will be paper pieced).

September 26th, 2011

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