How To Make A Windmill Quilt Block
The windmill quilt block tutorial.
How to make a windmill quilt block. Dana jones teaches you how to create a beautiful pinwheel quilt in this national quilters circle video. Here s a quick refresher on hst s. She walks you through the step by step process demonstrating each of the necessary techniques that you ll need to arrange stitch and press the pinwheels in preparation for application to a quilt. 2 5 mint squares.
Now it s time to create your pinwheel blocks. Arrange the units into the windmill design shown below. Pinwheel quilt block assembly. 2 5 mustard squares.
First lay out four half square triangles hst to form pinwheels as shown below. Set your seam with a hot iron and then press the seam towards the blue fabric. 6 5 white squares. Getting matching points on pinwheel blocks.
Each quarter unit is rotated a quarter turn as you move clockwise around the block. Using a quarter inch seam allowance sew the bottom blocks together. Assemble your windmill block. One thing to remember a pinwheel quilt block is really only four half square triangles.
4 5 coral squares. And this month we are back to working with all half square triangle blocks with the windmill quilt block tutorial. Make the following half square triangle blocks. Make sure that your triangles are pointing in the correct direction.
The long edge of the 4 patch is on the outside edge of the block.