Pinwheel Popper #2

My first Quilt Along for 2025 finished up a couple months ago. We used the Pinwheel Popper pattern that I wrote for Southern Charm Quilts’ resource library. You can get the pattern HERE. This pattern is fun and easy. It makes an interesting design without being complicated.

Without further ado, lets take a look at my finished quilt.

I love how soft an pretty this one looks with the oranges and pinks in the blades, seafoam green pinwheels, and white background. I love the crinkles in this one!

I free motion quilted this one in an edge to edge design. I’m not sure what it’s officially called, but I’ve always called it “double c’s”. You can check out my YouTube tutorial on quilting double c’s HERE. I also have a blog post on quilting organic wavy lines. This is an easy way to add a little movement using your walking foot instead of free motion quilting. You can read that post HERE.

I had a special label made for this quilt pattern. I’ve been doing that a lot over the last few years. I get all my labels from Melanie at Southern Charm Quilts. I was able to give her a graphic from the pattern, and she made me this lovely label. You can order one of these with your name on it HERE (affiliate link).

I also got labels made for some of my other patterns:
Partial Dreams (this one is a FREE pattern)
Dublin Fancy
Sew Diamond
Franken-Patches (this pattern is only $3.99)

I do have a tutorial for how I added that corner label with the chunky hand stitch. You can view that HERE.

I made a FULL binding tutorial for this one! I initially planned to put it all into one big video and put the time stamps for each step in the description. BUT, I ended up breaking it up into several videos and just putting it all into one playlist instead. I thought this would be easier for you if you wanted to go straight to a specific step.

For this tutorial, I used diagonal seams to piece my binding. This way is a little more complicated than straight seams. I also feel like joining the ends with the diagonal seams is a little less straight forward and a little more stress inducing compared to straight seams. So, I used the diagonal seams in this tutorial and demo my method for joining the ends. I came up with this method in my search for a way to make it easy. This idea hit me without preamble one night when my ADHD was keeping me awake. I hope you like it!

You can view the Binding Tutorial playlist HERE. Disclaimer: There are a few steps that I do differently than the majority of quilters. So, if you want to do your binding another way, go for it! Do what works best for you, and we can still be friends.