As I was working on the pinwheel top and bitterly complaining about how hard the setting piecing was to do…..
….. my friend Sylvia Schaefer from “Flying Parrot Quilts” commented that, if I had not pieced the pinwheels first, then the entire top could have been pieced in rows……
And, of course, she is right!!!
I got so carried away by my pinwheel excitement that I didn’t stop to plan!!!
Does that ever happen to you?
By the way….you should check out Sylvia’s website and all of her amazing quilts and patterns!!
Well, that is it for the pinwheels…..for the moment. Who knows when they will surface again!!
Last weekend I posted about making Pinwheel blocks….you can find the post HERE.
This weekend, I continued making blocks and have decided to turn them into a Twin-Size quilt that will be donated to one of the women’s shelters that our guild is supporting.
After I got the blocks made, I started thinking about a layout. My first thought was that I wanted them on point and alternating…..
As I looked at this, I kept seeing the streak-of-lightning that emerged between the rows of blocks and thought about putting different colors of fabric between the blocks…..
Ignore the two white squares….that was when I was trying something else.
……but I felt that adding a lot more color would decrease the excitement of the pinwheels.
Then I started thinking about keeping the background white and adding stems under each “flower”.
I like that idea but am having a heck of a time figuring out how to piece it without lots of inset seams!! My initial thought was to piece them into rectangle sections and then piece those sections together……
I will have some partial seams but no insets. So I will cogitate on that for the week and see if I can figure out an easy way to do it!!!
On the work side of my life, I have found something that is helping me during this super busy time. I calculated the number of tax returns that I need to do each week in order to be finished by April 15th. and, IF I finish all of them, then I don’t have to work on the weekend!! It is truly motivating me to stay in my office during the week!!!
I mentioned in my last “quilts on the screen” post that Michael and I love to watch British who-done-it mysteries, but we also LOVE British comedies….especially some of the older ones.
One of our all-time favorites is “As Time Goes By” staring the great Dame Judy Dench.
But, why wouldn’t I like it when this scrappy Pinwheel quilt is front and center on their bed…..
One of the things that we always notice about these “bedroom scenes” is that she is always in full makeup and has a necklace and rings on. Maybe I should start sleeping that way as well!!!
