Pinwheel Quilt Update

I have made some progress with the pinwheel quilt and I am eager to share it with you.  Firstly I have finished all my main pinwheel blocks and I am so happy with the outcome.

I absolutely love them!  What do you think?

The next stage I have completed is the cornerstone blocks.  I have made them half the width of the finished sized blocks.  I wanted the sashing to be quite wide but it hasn't worked out as well as I wanted but I will discuss that in a minute.  So that meant making 25 pinwheel cornerstone blocks!  Lots more cutting and piecing.

Since I needed 25 cornerstone pinwheels I decided to choose five colours - blue, green, yellow, pink, purple - and made five from each colour group.  It made it easy that way.  I then selected five random background fabrics and made sure I had one of each background colour appeared in each colour group.

Rainbow :-)

The cornerstone blocks where so much fun to put together.  Of course, so where the main blocks in the quilt.  It's turning out to be a very fun and colourful quilt which I am loving.  How do they look together on the design wall?

Beautiful!  I was a little worried because it still looks a little small but it should be okay to lay over my bed.  So, you can see how wide the sashing is?  I cut out a few pieces of the sashing to put up on the design wall to see how it would look.  Seriously, I thought with all the pinwheels off-white plain sashing was a good idea but as I started to put a few samples pieces up I realised how empty the quilt would look.  Sorry, I didn't take a photo.  So it was back to the design board for a sashing design.  It was a toss up between two ideas.

I actually wanted to do the four patch but it looked block-y.  You felt that patches of colour were lumped together in an unpleasing way.  So I was left with the tiles.  Unfortunately this has turned out way to much!  I have a picture of one block surrounded to show.

This looks okay with one block but as I put up more it was way too busy I couldn't stand it!  

So, what am I left with?

I will have to make very thin sashing (in purple) that will run along the inside of the pieced sashing so my eyes don't feel like their looking at a magic eye book!

So after piecing all those pinwheels, then making pieced sashing, I will need to cut out more sashing before piecing the quilt together.  A lot more work has gone into this quilt then previously arranged. Oh well.  It's a scrappy and absolutely random sampler quilt.  I can't wait to have it finished.  Once I have the very narrow purple sashing cut out and on the design wall I will take a photo to show you.

Happy Sewing :-)