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Originally Posted by BettyB
well here are some of my pinwheels that I have put into blocks. I have several more pinwheels made.
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My finished pinwheels are 5 1/2" .Can anyone figured sizes to finish them like the 8" framed pinwheels on the About site?
[/quote]Love this look.Going to finish mine that way to. |
Originally Posted by fabric whisperer
ok, I was following along quietly, working with my daughter on this in secret... the jig is up, tho ~ we tried the method of sewing around all four sides and cutting diagonally... so many people say they like this method... now we sewed a row together tonight with sashing, and we're getting wavy-pucker stuffs going on... I have been quilting long enough that I didn't see that comin' and it hit me like WHAM!
I smoothed them out by hand on the ironing board, and I think they'll be ok once we start smoothing onto the batting... but my daughter was trying to do a quilt up for one of her BFFs whose b-day party is this coming Friday. Now I am not sure if there's a better method to doing the HSTs? I have done some complicated stuff before, I cannot believe pinwheels will be my demise! You could also take two squares right sides together, draw a line down the middle point to point, Sew 1/4" on each side of the line, cut on the line and square up the blocks method. This method doesn't have bias edges. HTH |
Has anyone tried the 3 D pinwheel.? It is quick and easy. I just can't stop making them.
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Ora Lee, What's a 3d Pinwheel and is there a block I can download, Blessings, Georgia
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Just a little bit more and I will have DGD quilt done and can start on youngest DGS pinwheel quilt. The pinwheels I have done will be made into a table runner
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Originally Posted by plainpat
My finished pinwheels are 5 1/2" .Can anyone figured sizes to finish them like the 8" framed pinwheels on the About site?
I am not sure if I found the pattern you are refering to but here are some figures for you if it is. |
Dilemma -- started out with scrappy pinwheels. Each pinwheel has two different colors. Now I'm thinking that I like the ones that are a color with white. Which way to proceed???!
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I have the same dilemna. . . I have a rainbow of colors so what I decided to do is tones - the current one has 24 gree/blue/brown pinwheels and I am going to make it a 'boys' quilt. I plan on donating mine to a kids hospital. This one would be more teenage boy- I have some juvenile prints to use for younger boys , pinks/res and yellow for the girls. That was my solution. Will post them as I get them done. I have a total of 50 pinwheels - but needed a break. Anyone else have an ideas??
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[quote=BettyB][quote=plainpat]My finished pinwheels are 5 1/2" .Can anyone figured sizes to finish them like the 8" framed pinwheels on the About site?
I found a guide on about.com for piwheels: 3 7/8" squares make 6" blocks and 5 7/8" makes 10 inch blocks - hope that helps :-D |
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