Sew With Me / The Pinwheel Quilt Block / Block 9 with Erica Arndt
It’s time for block #9 in Erica's Sew With Me Sew-a-long where she teaches you how to make some of the most fun and classic quilt blocks! This week she'll be tackling the Pinwheel Block. Throughout this series, she hopes you'll learn some new skills, tips, and tricks, and at the end of the series, you'll will have a fun selection of blocks to sew together into a sampler quilt!
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Erica Arndt
Erica is a blogger, author, quilter, knitter, and maker of all the things! She is perhaps most well known for her homeschooling website, Confessions of a Homeschooler where she share homeschooling tips, curriculum, and organizational ideas, in addition to her quilting patterns and videos. She loves creating weekly video tutorials to share helpful tips, tricks, tutorials, fun projects, and inspiration for sewing and quilting.
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It’s time for block #9 in Erica's Sew With Me Sew-a-long where she teaches you how to make some of the most fun and classic quilt blocks! This week she'll be tackling the Pinwheel Block. Throughout this series, she hopes you'll learn some new skills, tips, and tricks, and at t...
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To make a pinwheel quilt block, you will need four squares of fabric in the same size, but two different colors (two squares in each color).
Trace a diagonal line at a 45 degree angle (from corner to corner) on the back of two of the squares. Now sew the squares together, sewing approximately 1/4" seam to both sides of the diagonal line.
Using a rotary cutter, mat and ruler, cut on the diagonal line, creating 2 half square triangles per set of squares.
Press open and trim to size desired.
Arrange the half square triangles in a 4 patch block, rotating each unit 90 degrees until a pinwheel pattern appears.
Sew the units together, nesting seams and press your final unit, trimming to desired size.
Pinwheel blocks can be used on their own to create a simple yet striking quilt, or they can be combined with other block designs to create more complex quilt patterns.
