I'd like opinions on using a "wood iron" (see the show & tell "what where & why entries) to press all the seams each month. It sure could save a lot of electricity, but has anyone had a BaD experience with this technique? Clover has a plastic "finger presser". I'm not anxious to spend $7.00 shipping on a $2.00 item. I can purchase clover products down the street.

My March BOM is posted in Show and Tell. It finished at 51" and was a lot of work! I'm looking forward to the star blocks next month.

I've posted my March BOM a few days ago, now anxiously awaiting April. Heidi

I posted my March BOM in the Show and Tell area. My finished March is 39 inches. I am going to wait for April for the floaters. I didn't need to add a floater between the February and the March the Pinwheels fit the outside perfectly.

Finally getting to start working on my pinwheels. Getting ready to start sewing on Thursday at my small Guild workshop. I hope to get quite a few pinwheels done then.

Margarita in Auburn, CA

I agree 6 1/2" is more than enough. I made my triangles 2 1/8" instead of 2" and I had plenty of fabric using 6 1/2" squares.

I'm currently on a borrowed PC just to print out my additional 17 copies of the pinwheel templates. My computer stopped working about a week ago after a 10 hour power failure, so I'm a little behind for March and feel like a bird without wings. However, I've completed about half of the 72 sawtooth stars needed for this quilt. It was easier to cut them all out at once and chain piece a bunch of them whenever I find some free time to sew.

Anyway, I just completed my first template of pinwheels, using 7 inch squares instead of 7 1/2 inch squares, and still had a lot of waste. I think a 6 1/2 inch square would be large enough, even though I understand why some may want a more generous cut--I am trying to conserve my fabrics because I'm concerned that I may run out otherwise and some of my fabrics were just too pricey to waste.

I just posted my photo of March. I like how the reproduction fabrics are coming along.

I took the center star apart, just enough, to rotate the 2 offending triangles I had sewn in without paying attention to the directional fabric. I knew I couldn't live with that mistake and it was as easy to fix now as it would ever be.

This is tax season and I'm working way too many hours which leaves little time to sew but I've kept up to this point. April is another story! It will be late April before I get to it again.

I do love checking the Show and Tell to see how wonderful and different all our quilts are. Keep up the great work!

Barbara

WOW! Everyone is doing such beautiful work on their BOM!!! I haven't started my pinwheels yet--got addicted to the little sawtooth stars and made 39 of them!!! Anyway, I think I'm going to do a little something different with my pinwheels--let you know how it goes. Judy in Torrance

florence wrote:
Good point, Florence! AS LONG AS THEY'RE ALL THE SAME SIZE!
I think that eveyone is figuring out how important it is to follow Sue's instructions in the video to measure, cut, sew and press PRECICELY.
This has been important up to now, but is even more so for the next 6 months when we are making the 24 sampler blocks for the next border.
We not only need to get them square, but as close to 6-1/2" (unfinished) as we can get them. They will be pieced together with setting triangles, like we did with the 4-patch border, and everything will fit together better if we can start with uniform blocks.

So...keep sewing and checking your finished measurements as you go, and you will be fine!!

Finished this morning. For Valentine's day my DH, Mark made me a design wall. This is a very helpful tool with this quilt. I love having things on the wall to twist and turn to make sure it's exactly the way I want.

My square finished 40 1/4 - close to Sue's, I'm pleased.

denise

I enjoy seeing what everyone is doing on their pinwheels, I have not started yet, as I am finishing my quilts for our quilt show on April 4th and 5th. Just have one more quilt to bind. It takes we quite a while to get that done.

Margarita in Auburn, CA

Mary your quilt is beautiful so far. The colors are gorgeous!
Karen

Just posted my March pinwheels. This was a much easier border to do- I used Sue's suggested paper method and it was quick to make accurate blocks. Am also caught up with the sawtooth blocks, so will probably continue to work on more of those.
Mary in sunny MN