I love the pinwheels that you make using a special ruler to cut up connected blocks. For quite a while, I have cut up extra fabric into 5" squares. How convenient to sew these squares together to make a table runner - Some of this fabric was in Mandy's graduation quilt - quite a few years ago.
The second neat thing about making this quilt top, is that if you cut the first pinwheels carefully, you have small squares that can be trimmed to 2-1/2" squares, which, after being sewn together and then cut, you have a miniature pinwheel quilt. Fun, right?
This is the second group - goes faster the second time.
This is one of the best ways I know of to get rid of some winter blahs. Make something useful while having the satisfaction of learning a new technique. A recent article in one of our newspapers said that learning quilting and photography were two ways to keep our brains in a learning mode - I take a few pictures, but love the challenge of finding new ways to make pleasing patterns in fabric.
Now, I have a real excuse - keep this ancient mind in top form! If you don't make quilts, it's not too late to begin.
