Pinwheels....

I get very distracted in the holidays......I am meant to be packing but I keep getting sidetracked by my stashes of fabric lying about! I got this fabric at Sandown...just £5 a metre.

Look at these fab little houses

When I was in America last year I bought a twister tool that is an easy way to make pinwheel quilts. I have been desperate to try it out so today I quickly whizzed up some four patches.

Just look at my nested seams!

Then you lay the twisty thingy on the top, lining up the seams and re-cut the squares; these are now 10" squares.

Then you arrange them all into the pinwheel shapes and sew them all together.

BAM! one pinwheel quilt; but it needed some borders so I went for a 2" one in green

then a 4" one in the gorgeous houses to make it a bit bigger.

And here it is all together! Those pinwheels just look so effective! I can't quite believe how easy it was...it took me just under 4 hours to do!