tooMuchFabric

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STIDed in the center seams of the pinwheels for stability,
then stippled in the backgrounds of the pinwheel blocks,
moving the vanes of the pinwheel back in their respective squares to stipple "underneath" them as far as I could get.
I don't really think I'd stipple that far underneath them next time.
All the inner background stippling is one continuous line.

In the blue borders I did over-and-under loop-de-loops.

Between the blocks and in the outer pieced border I did orange peels. The orange peel patterns in the outer pieced border are one continuous line each.
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Sheree from Chicago

Thanks for helping us with these. Your quilt is beautiful!

buntcake49

Now that sounds a little complicated especially for a beginner with a long arm. Thanks

tooMuchFabric

Really it isn't. I was a beginner at the time, had just got the whole stippling light to dawn for me, and a start of a feel for the machine, and did this quilt.
In fact, this is waaay more doable than the whole panto thing: I was not that accurate enough to follow the lines.
So I went with freehand, where I could say "I planned it that way" - !!!

Rina

Thanks for showing us!

Keeps Them In Stitches

Great Tut and loved the added directions on your quilting methods. I've got this in my list of things I want to do.
Thanks for sharing. :-)

k3n

Brilliant! And thanks for the quilting details - I love your philosophy too on panto versus freehand. I don't have a long arm but I fmq on my Janome and look at LA work a lot for design inspiration and I always find I prefer freehand work to panto - it has more 'soul' somehow!

Lisa773

That is beautiful! I don't normally like pinwheels (I can never get the points right), but I can see these pinwheels in my future. :)

grandma Janice

I'm going to use this for a baby quilt. thank you.

SueDor

I love this quilt. What a great idea.