Showing posts with label pinwheel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pinwheel. Show all posts

Sunday, May 1, 2011

Pinwheel Quilt

When I found out my colleague Megan was having a little boy, I decided to make a blue quilt. Turned out that pinwheels are really fun to put together. I was able to go crazy with blues and greens to create a super-saturated effect. No white whatsoever:

it all came together even more beautifully than I imagined. The quilt feels like being deep in the ocean, I think. The layout is a close copy of a quilt in Mary Matshuta's Confetti Quilts. Here are two views:


The quilting up close. Not my strongest effort, but it will be nice and strong for baby to play with!: