It’s Week 6 of our Framed Pinwheels quilt along! This pattern is from Missouri Star Quilt Company, my favorite Missouri Star pattern. You can read a little more about that and why it’s my favorite HERE.
Videos for this week
I’ve been making lots of videos for this quilt along: demos, advice, reveals and such. We just have one video for this week.
I will be adding videos throughout the quilt along. You can view all of the currently available videos at any time in this playlist.
On the Schedule for this Week
For this week, we’re going to take all those 9-Patches that we worked so hard on last week cut them up, rearrange them, and sew them back together to make our final blocks.
Disappearing 9-Patch Blocks
This pattern uses disappearing 9-Patch blocks. You’ll make your 9-Patches, cut them up, rearrange them and sew them back together to get a new block. This gives you a quilt that looks harder than it is. There are several ways to do disappearing 9-Patch blocks. Framed Pinwheels uses the classic method with a the added pinwheels to spice it up. For this one, you’ll cut the blocks down the center both vertically and horizontally making four quadrants. ***TIP: It’s a good idea to press the blocks before you cut into them. You’ll get more accurate cuts if your block is pressed nice and flat first.
Once you make the cuts, you’ll flip the top left and bottom right pieces 180 degrees and sew them back together. This seems like a lot of steps, but it’s much quicker and easier than cutting and sewing all those pieces that end up looking like sashing and cornerstones.
When your done, you end up with your finished block! I go into more detail with this in the video HERE.
Each Week on the Blog
I’ll link to all of the other weeks near the end of each post. I will add each post here as I have them. You can also find this on the Quilt Alongs Page.
Week 1 – Gather Fabrics & Cut Pieces
Week 2 – Make Half Square Triangles
Week 3 – Trim Half Square Triangles
Week 4 – You are currently at the Week 4 post
Week 5 – Make 9-Patches
Week 6 – You are currently at the Week 6 post
Week 7 – Assemble Your Quilt Top
Prize for this Week
Our prize for this week, from me, @snugglebugstitching, is two of my patterns, Dublin Fancy and Forkledoodle.
This one can be for both US winners and Internationals winners. If the winner is an international quilt alonger, I will send you the PDFs so you won’t have to wait weeks for the shipping. If the winner is a US winner, you can choose either PDF or paper patterns.
To be eligible for prizes:
– You must be following me and ALL of our sponsors on Instagram and post at least one progress picture for the week on Instagram by Monday at 5:00 PM Central Time. You must tag me @snugglebugstitching and Missouri Star Quilt Company @missouriquiltco in your posts and use the #framedpinwheelsqal and #msqcshowandtell.
Here are the Instagram accounts you need to be following to be elligible for prizes:
@snugglebugstitching
@benartex_fabrics
@missouriquiltco
@cutloosepress
@thegypsyquilter
-I will announce the winner on Instagram and tag the lucky quilt alonger so that they know they’ve won. The winner will have one week to contact me to claim the prize. Any unclaimed prizes will be forfeited.
That’s all I’ve got for today
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Happy quilting!
