Here is how I came up with my pinwheels:
Take 2 charms - they should be light/dark combos.
Place the 2 squares face to face:
Sew around all four sides of the square:
Now, you want to cut the square, corner to corner - top left to bottom right, and top right to bottom left - cut an X
Now, iron the triangles open - always to the dark side!
So now we have our 4 half square triangles!
Place the squares in the proper order - I had to keep looking at the first one I did so that I could get it right!
Time to sew.............when I first started, I was doing one at a time
But then I got the hang of it, and more confidence, and I started chaining them:
This is my little pile of chained pieces.
Gotta snip all the little pieces apart:
So now, you have the left side and right side, which must now be matched up and sewn together. Notice - the corners with the 1/4 inch difference - outside corners are pointed, inside corners do NOT match on corners - this is how you know which sides to attach.
Finished pinwheel! :-)
Many finished pinwheels!!!
I've sewn them all together. They now have 2 borders on them - no photos - will get those photographed and up tomorrow. Hopefully, tomorrow I will be able to get it sandwiched and quilted. :-)
Hope you enjoyed my journey of the pinwheels.
Any comments welcomed.
6 comments:
Yep-That's how I did it-they are so fast that way! I was making 1/2 square triangles, but this is so much faster!! Can't wait to see the blocks with their borders :)
that I have never thought of it makes it easy , I love your idea and I never have seen it before thank you ,stop by and visit me martha ,when you have a second.
Sewing on the outside borders of your block! Clever idea. I have been debating on trying pinwheels and was dreading all the cutting and matching..not really, but usually you have to do a humungus number of pinwheels...this will help speed things along. Thanks!
Thanks for the comments everyone! If you go to YouTube, and search Missouri Star Quilt Co, they have a tutorial on the pinwheels. I probably should have put the link in my post, but I was tired last night when I was trying to upload all those pics.
Can anyone tell me, why, when I post, my post is all in order, no spaces or big gaps in between the photos and posts, but when I publish it, it looks so terrible? I can't seem to get this blogging thing down very well! I apologize for the spacing and all.
Very nice job Martha! Can't wait to see it with the borders on and the quilting done. Simple... gotta love it! ;-)
Good job,cuz! As for the blogging question, do you have a preview button? That will show you what you will have and you can go back and change what needs to be changed.
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