Design Wall Monday

The main design wall in my sewing room has the blocks for a project that originated almost three years ago when I won a container full of triangle cut-offs at our guild auction. I blogged about this project for the first time HERE. I stitched the pieces into half-square triangles as my leader and ender project for many months, then later joined the HSTs into groups of four to make pinwheel blocks. Each pinwheel block was trimmed down to 3" square (2.5" finished size.) Here's one group of blocks made in 2023.

Earlier this year I made the last pinwheel blocks, ending up with a total of close to 370 blocks. I sorted them into groups by color, then arranged them on the wall in concentric rings. The colors blend together more than I anticipated (except for the light/cream blocks,) but I like the way they work together. This layout used 340 blocks, set 17 across and 20 high.

I started stitching the blocks together over the weekend. Getting all those triangle points to match where the blocks come together is challenging, and getting the seams to lay flat when I press them isn't easy either. I started with the lower half of the quilt, dividing it into four groups. Each group is 10 blocks high, and most are 4 blocks wide, but one of them has 5 across.

When the blocks had been assembled into the four groups, it was time to join the sections to one another. The lower half of the quilt is together!

I hope to have enough time in the next few days to get the rest of these little pinwheels joined together. This quilt top is one of the projects on my list for the guild's UFO Challenge, which has really helped motivate me to get it done!

I'm  linking up with:

Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts

Monday Musings at Songbird Designs

Wednesday Wait Loss at Inquiring Quilter

Happy quilting everyone!

Julie in GA