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Pinwheels and Patches

Hello Dear Friends and Readers, I thought I would share what I have been working on this week. Although this project is by no means finished, it’s still fun!

You may remember I recently posted this new block I designed called Endless Scrappy Pinwheel Block. Here is the link.

Endless Scrappy Pinwheels Block

I decided to make 9 of these blocks. You can also see the secondary design of the little red bow ties inbetween. Incidentally, I used approximately different 20 fabrics to maintain the scrappiness. Here they are. At this stage, I have not pressed. This is because I am now dealing with bias edges,, therefore I will wait until the border is added and the edges have been stabilised.

Approximately 2 metres or 2.2 yards of the background fabric was required.

Cutting for the border

Using the same fabrics, I cut 96 of 4″ x 4″ squares from all the scrap fabrics. These will make the Four Patch Border.

Then 8 of 4″ x 4″ squares from the red spot fabric used in the Endless Scrappy Pinwheel Blocks and 8 of 4″ x 4″ squares from the background fabric used in the Endless Scrappy Pinwheel Blocks. These will be the corner Four patches for the border.

Now for a bit of production line sewing on a treadle of course!

I know it’s been mentioned it before, but….I really love Four Patches. I know they are simple, yet somehow so endearing with many applications / uses. So here are the 4″ x 4″ squares sewn into Four Patches. I made 24 scrappy Four patches.