Pinwheel Mini Quilt

After wrestling Cheetah's very large quilt I felt like making something small.  I pulled out some old bonus triangle scraps from my reverse star quilt.  

I made that quilt in January 2014, so it only took me 7 years to use up the scraps.  I decided to make pinwheels out of the little half square triangle blocks.  

I grouped the half square triangles into light medium and dark pinwheels.  Then I had to decide whether to add sashing or plain squares between the pinwheels with the limited fabric I had left of the low volume print.  I chose setting squares and barely had enough fabric.  One square is actually two rectangles sewn together.  

I decided on a mixed up layout instead of an ombre layout.  I pieced the blocks together using the webbing method.  

I decided to quilt it in the ditch and down the center of each block.  (The center line quilting hid the extra seam in the background fabric perfectly.)

I heard that Bonnie Hunter uses a 2 inch cut binding and I decided to try it out to avoid cutting off points on the pinwheels.  

The binding was stitched to the back by hand.  

The backing is a denim blue fabric I was given several years ago.  

This new mini quilt looks so pretty on my kitchen table.

Sometimes a small, fast, and scrappy finish is exactly what I need.

XX,

Jasmine