Thursday, February 17, 2011

Pinwheels & Oven Pad

It took a few days to make, but I made 5 of the 4th pinwheel block this week.  It looks like a simple pattern, but there was a lot of work in making 5 of them.  There are 20 half square triangles in each block, multiply that by 5 and you have 100 half square triangles that needed to be cut, marked, sewn, ironed, recut/squared, sewn, ironed, sewn, ironed, and squared, etc.  I'm really happy that I finished it weeks before I need to turn it in to get the pattern for the 5th block.
I pieced four of them together like I did with the previous pinwheel blocks.  Its not perfect, but that is ok.  
I've been following a blog on making things out of fabric salvages.  So I've started saving my salvages separately from my other fabric scraps.  After saving 4 salvaged pieces, I made this oven pad / hot pad.  The two pictures show the front and the back of it.  I used some pink girlie skull ribbon for the hanger.  It seemed to fit with the color scheme.  Now I want to make another black and white quilt but with pink as my 3rd color.  The binding is far from perfect, however I am fine with that.

3 comments:

  1. I love pinwheels!

    And I'm with you...I'd love to say my quilt was all me. But I'm so afraid of messing it up! I know for sure I don't want to hand quilt. I know I can stitch in the ditch, but I think this quilt would look so cute with some whimsical stitching :-) I can lower the feed dogs and I do have a darning foot...but that's where I get scared of totally wrecking the quilt by "doodling" on my own.....ahhhhhh!!!!

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  2. Would you like my selvages? I'd happily send them to you. email me, if so.

    swandiva at hotmail dot calm

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  3. those look very trendy! id love to have some cutsie ones in my kitchen!

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