My Next Quilt - Pinwheels, Circles and Stars

 I saw a photo, but no pattern, for my next quilt. I'm not finished with my latest quilt, however, I have to get the pattern down, while I have it in my head. 

Sometimes I find patterns I like, other times I will see something, and then come home and create a pattern that will get me where I want to go. This is just such a time. I've drawn out the pattern, on a sheet of white paper.

Update: I've found it. It's a 1930's pattern found in a newspaper (in the '30's) it's the Wheel of Fortune, and one of the hardest I've tried, because it should be paper patterned, or I think made on a base fabric. Each completed block stretches soooo much! It's taking a long time to get it finished!

Update 2: Finally! This quilt went into the mail the first of March, with the landscaped quilt. It was the least perfect quilt I've made, but that doesn't make it less valuable. It was beautiful, if a little more wrinkly than my others. It's more like the first quilt of my self-taught self than my hundred and something quilt.

Now that I have the pattern, I can begin by cutting it out, then glue this to a piece of cardboard. When I have to create the pattern, quilts can take longer, in the over 100 hour range (just like quilts with small pieces) as I will actually draw the pattern on fabric to cut it out.

Need to make the strips 2" and 7 1/2"

Test block - different sized pieces
I learned a lot!

Cutting and cutting and cutting.

Pinning one half.

Pinning the other half

Very difficult quilt without blocks below!

Quilt of Valor - Splashes of Blue and Red

Is this seven of seven, seven of nine or seven of eleven this year? It's seven of eleven Quilts of Valor made this year. Anyway, it's nearing it's finish, and then on to the next one. I made two at the same time, in this pattern and these colors. They were to be gifted to two cousins, and so I needed them to be similar. Of the cousins, one is still serving, the other has served and moved on to other things. 

The color was changed, by that I mean, on the second quilt, where you see red here, you would see blue there. These use the traditional log cabin block, set it on point and using just two color palettes, create an intriguing design, don't you think?

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