This image is from here and just made me want to make one like it. I love it and the fabric here is ginger blossom by Sandi Henderson.
My colours are more muted but I don't seem to be able to get my photo colours to pop like others do. I am working on that.
I pieced my pinwheels using 5" squares, two white and two coloured for each pinwheel. I used a tutorial on youtube for instructions. I saw a tutorial for using two squares and sewing around all four sides to generate four pairs of half square triangles by cutting diagonally corner to corner twice. I am glad I didn't do that as I had enough distortion the way I did it. Doing it the other way would have lead to even more seams on the cross than I had which means it will all be more stretchy and easy to deform.
When I put the borders on I forgot the golden rule of measuring through the centre to determine the lengths of the borders. I just sewed on enough border and found that it was a bit 'frilly' afterwards because the borders were longer than the centre of the quilt due to triangles deforming and stretching. I took them off and resewed them on again after measuring them and it was ok. This was just annoying as I ended up basting it twice.
I pieced the back with more hatbox fabric and the binding if a dot from the same line. I love this quilt and it lives on our sofa and is often used on chilly evenings. I machine quilted it with lines in a grid about 0.25" from the seams around each pinwheel.
In other news, my hexagon log cabins quilt is progressing slowly. I sewed a lot of it together with triangles in between and I was grappling with it and it just wasn't fitting together and looked absolutely awful - most of it wasn't lining up at all. So I ended up taking it all apart and cutting all of the hexagons and triangles to size accurately. It isn't rocket science! I just thought I could coax them into fitting and get it good enough, but it just ended up taking far longer and looking much much worse than I thought. So that was a lesson learnt - make sure everything is the right shape and size first! I have fussy cut some of the triangles and the one above is my favourite because it has a pink elephant on it. That was right on the edge of my 'parade' fat quarter from children at play by Sarah Jane. I couldn't have done much else with it so it has made some really nice fussy cut triangles.
Have a great weekend!