March Pinwheels

[denise-nh]

Okay...I NEED HELP!!! I finished my pinwheels, got my floating border on everything measures perfectly...and looked closely at my beautiful quilt and realized three of the four corner blocks of my 4 patches are sewn in "upside down", that is to say the darks are toward the outside corner. Don't know how I managed that, don't know why I never noticed it until now. Suggestions? Would you tear everything out or just chalk it up to experience and tell people I meant it to be that way??? UGH :roll:

Leave it - it's your humility square. Your all set now.

denise

[denise-nh]

Okay...I NEED HELP!!! I finished my pinwheels, got my floating border on everything measures perfectly...and looked closely at my beautiful quilt and realized three of the four corner blocks of my 4 patches are sewn in "upside down", that is to say the darks are toward the outside corner. Don't know how I managed that, don't know why I never noticed it until now. Suggestions? Would you tear everything out or just chalk it up to experience and tell people I meant it to be that way??? UGH :roll:

I would walk away from it and then come back to it in a couple days and see if it still bothered me. Sometimes I fix things like this and sometimes I just leave it be. It really depends on how I feel about it after I give myself a little time away from the issue. It also depends on what I am planning on doing with the quilt after it is completed.

[denise-nh]

Dear Denise,
I like your idea....and if you check out Sue Garman's website gallery there is a quilt, similar to the one we are working on , that has an all flying geese inner border next to a feathered star, very effective.
I am thinking of making a lapquilt using a feathered star surrounded by flying geese....after I finish this year's big project!!!

cheers
Jeanine in rainy NS

[Keith]

On a couple of my half-square triangles in my pinwheels, the background fabric is sewn upside-down. By that I mean that the front side of the fabric is on the back side of the quilt top and the back side of the fabric is face up on the quilt top. I generally don't want my backside on display... :shock: but I'm leaving the pinwheels in - they are my humility blocks and there will be more... If anybody inspects my quilt that closely, I figure I'm already ahead of the game...

[sewengel]

Hey Keith -- technically we do pay for both sides of the fabric. Oh, well. We all have humility blocks. I could probably make a king size with all the humility blocks I have made. LOL

Sharon in Colorado

[QuilterLynn]

Finished March! Learning alot. Accuracy is an issue. Notice how thin my last floater is! ha ha

And I really am trying to be accurate! I just don't have such a close and personal relationship with my sewing machine as I should have. smile

[QuilterLynn]

Karen I love your colors!

and Denise, isn't that what's great about geometry? So many ways to make a square, and so long as they're all the same size you can put them together any way you want! Very creative!

Florence

[MaryQuilts2]

Just posted my March pinwheels. This was a much easier border to do- I used Sue's suggested paper method and it was quick to make accurate blocks. Am also caught up with the sawtooth blocks, so will probably continue to work on more of those.
Mary in sunny MN

[kfstitcher]

Mary your quilt is beautiful so far. The colors are gorgeous!
Karen

[kfstitcher]

I enjoy seeing what everyone is doing on their pinwheels, I have not started yet, as I am finishing my quilts for our quilt show on April 4th and 5th. Just have one more quilt to bind. It takes we quite a while to get that done.

Margarita in Auburn, CA

[denise-nh]

Finished this morning. For Valentine's day my DH, Mark made me a design wall. This is a very helpful tool with this quilt. I love having things on the wall to twist and turn to make sure it's exactly the way I want.

My square finished 40 1/4 - close to Sue's, I'm pleased.

denise

[Margo]

..... isn't that what's great about geometry? So many ways to make a square, and so long as they're all the same size you can put them together any way you want! Very creative!

Florence

Good point, Florence! AS LONG AS THEY'RE ALL THE SAME SIZE!
I think that eveyone is figuring out how important it is to follow Sue's instructions in the video to measure, cut, sew and press PRECICELY.
This has been important up to now, but is even more so for the next 6 months when we are making the 24 sampler blocks for the next border.
We not only need to get them square, but as close to 6-1/2" (unfinished) as we can get them. They will be pieced together with setting triangles, like we did with the 4-patch border, and everything will fit together better if we can start with uniform blocks.

So...keep sewing and checking your finished measurements as you go, and you will be fine!!

[Judymc]

WOW! Everyone is doing such beautiful work on their BOM!!! I haven't started my pinwheels yet--got addicted to the little sawtooth stars and made 39 of them!!! Anyway, I think I'm going to do a little something different with my pinwheels--let you know how it goes. Judy in Torrance

[bbquiltmaker]

I just posted my photo of March. I like how the reproduction fabrics are coming along.

I took the center star apart, just enough, to rotate the 2 offending triangles I had sewn in without paying attention to the directional fabric. I knew I couldn't live with that mistake and it was as easy to fix now as it would ever be.

This is tax season and I'm working way too many hours which leaves little time to sew but I've kept up to this point. April is another story! It will be late April before I get to it again.

I do love checking the Show and Tell to see how wonderful and different all our quilts are. Keep up the great work!

Barbara

[bbquiltmaker]

I'm currently on a borrowed PC just to print out my additional 17 copies of the pinwheel templates. My computer stopped working about a week ago after a 10 hour power failure, so I'm a little behind for March and feel like a bird without wings. However, I've completed about half of the 72 sawtooth stars needed for this quilt. It was easier to cut them all out at once and chain piece a bunch of them whenever I find some free time to sew.

Anyway, I just completed my first template of pinwheels, using 7 inch squares instead of 7 1/2 inch squares, and still had a lot of waste. I think a 6 1/2 inch square would be large enough, even though I understand why some may want a more generous cut--I am trying to conserve my fabrics because I'm concerned that I may run out otherwise and some of my fabrics were just too pricey to waste.