Originally Posted by cag1949
Originally Posted by StitchinJoy
Nine patch blocks make nice borders too.
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Thank you, CAG, that's very kind of you!
It's Bonnie Hunter's Patches n Pinwheels pattern. She got me started making 4patches using leaders and enders and I wound up with more than 300 4patches. This was a great way to use those up! Her website has the pattern and dozens of other scrappy quilt patterns for FREE>>
http://quiltville.com/16pinwheels.shtml
I got a bit carried away, and put 2 extra borders on mine, so it has a raspberry colored inner border, a border of scrappy 4-patches, and an outer border of black with confetti all over it. There are over 200 different fabrics in the quilt and it's almost 100 inches square.
I make lots of quilts for Project Linus and so I have loads of novelty fabrics. We needed a new quilt for our bed and I decided to make a quilt for me the way I always try to make them for kids--by thinking about things I like, and putting those fabrics in the quilt.
Well! This quilt has flowers and stars and lots of dots. It has loads of blueberries, cherries, apples, watermelon, and chocolate. It has people I love real and imagined including President Lincoln, Harry Potter and Linus.
It was loads of fun to make, and I smile every time I look at it. It even makes it fun to make the bed, if you can believe it!