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Rolling Pinwheel
Rolling Pinwheel

I hope that you have already done the January BOM and will stay with me through the year. I think you'll like the final design. This one isn't all that hard...you'll get a chance to perfect your HSTs a bit more. You need 4 fabrics for this block: a Neutral, Light, Medium and Dark. I used my offwhite background, a Rose, a Light Blue and a Deep Blue. The Medium and Dark do not have to be the same color. I just liked them together.

A couple of points...(1) I have you cut slightly large for the Half-Squares Triangles (HST), so you MUST square them up as I direct, and (2) there is no sashing in the quilt to "fudge" block sizes, so you need to be exact with your finished block sizes in order to join them easily. In case you are wondering what colors I'm using in the blocks...the fabrics that I used are the same colors as my graphics. I hope this will be the start of a fun project for us all!

Posted: February 2004

Sample Quilt Layouts

Fabric Cutting Information
Light Cut 4 3" squares
Medium Cut 4 3" squares
Dark Cut 2 3" squares
Cut 1 4-1/2" square
Background Cut 4 2-1/2" squares
Cut 4 2-1/2"x4-1/2" rectangles
Cut 10 3" squares

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Step Sewing Directions
1 Mark a diagonal line on the wrong side of 4 3" squares of Neutral; match right sides together with 3" squares of Light; stitch 1/4" seam on both sides of diagonal line; cut apart on diagonal line and press toward Light. Square up to 2-1/2". (Diagram 1)
2 Mark a diagonal line on the wrong side of 4 3" squares of Neutral; match right sides together with 3" squares of Medium; stitch 1/4" seam on both sides of diagonal line; cut apart on diagonal line and press toward Medium. Square up to 2-1/2". (Diagram 2)
3 Mark a diagonal line on the wrong side of 2 3" squares of Neutral; match right sides together with 3" squares of Dark; stitch 1/4" seam on both sides of diagonal line; cut apart on diagonal line and press toward Dark. Square up to 2-1/2". (Diagram 3)
4 Attach an HST with Medium to an HST with Dark...press toward Dark. Make 4 units. (Diagram 4)
5 Attach units from step#4 to 2-1/2"x4-1/2" rectangle of Neutral...press toward rectangle. (Diagram 5)
6 Attach an HST with Light to a 2-1/2" square of Neutral...press toward Neutral. Make 4 units. (Diagram 6)
7 Attach an HST with Light to an HST with Medium...press toward Neutral. Make 4 units. (Diagram 7)
8 Attach a unit from step#6 to a unit from step#7...press toward unit from step#7. (Diagram 8)
9 Attach a unit from step#8 to opposite sides of a unit from step#5...press toward corners. (Diagram 9)
10 Attach last two unit from step#5 to opposite sides of 4-1/2" square of Dark...press toward Dark. (Diagram 10)
11 Attach rows from step#9 to opposite sides of row from step#10 to create the block.
12 IMPORTANT: Please square up your finished block to be sure it is 12-1/2". If it is larger or smaller, check your seams and redo if necessary. If you do not check your measurements, your block may not join properly with other blocks easily to create the finished quilt.


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