Easy 3-D pinwheels
08-05-2010, 08:18 PM
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Originally Posted by buntcake49
This does look very easy. How did you do the top stitching, by stippling or with a pattern. I have grand daughter(?) due in Feb and I would love to do this for her.
Ellie Bunt
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Ellie Bunt
Northern California
STIDed in the center seams of the pinwheels for stability,
then stippled in the backgrounds of the pinwheel blocks,
moving the vanes of the pinwheel back in their respective squares to stipple "underneath" them as far as I could get.
I don't really think I'd stipple that far underneath them next time.
All the inner background stippling is one continuous line.
In the blue borders I did over-and-under loop-de-loops.
Between the blocks and in the outer pieced border I did orange peels. The orange peel patterns in the outer pieced border are one continuous line each.
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Back of pinwheel squares, with center line stabilizing STID and stippling; inner border loop-de-loops; and outer border orange peels
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08-05-2010, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by buntcake49
Now that sounds a little complicated especially for a beginner with a long arm. Thanks
In fact, this is waaay more doable than the whole panto thing: I was not that accurate enough to follow the lines.
So I went with freehand, where I could say "I planned it that way" - !!!
08-06-2010, 01:48 AM
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Brilliant! And thanks for the quilting details - I love your philosophy too on panto versus freehand. I don't have a long arm but I fmq on my Janome and look at LA work a lot for design inspiration and I always find I prefer freehand work to panto - it has more 'soul' somehow!
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