At first, I was randomly sewing them together reminiscent of a 'crazy quilt' pattern. As much as I liked this looked, I wanted something small enough to quilt myself and this one was going to be too big.
I decided to set the 8 inch blocks inside a white border done somewhat 'wonky' so they would look like they were twisting and turning.
I put the first two blocks together and it created the look i wanted by setting them inside a wonky border. Block still square but now at 9 1/2 inches.
A week went by before I had time to do 10 more of the squares. The only problem was that I forgot how I did it the first time! But of course I didn't notice I was doing it wrong until all ten were done. You can see these are clearly not square.
Once I noticed my error, I had a few minutes debate on whether I should I bond with my seam ripper?
I decided to go with the quilting flow and just trim the blocks back to 8 1/2 inches square.
Eight have been sewn together so far. I'm liking the way this looks - while it isn't quite as much spinning movement as I want, I've got some ideas that can still be incorporated.
More to come. (About 12 more pinwheels to be precise.)
Happy Stitching!
