Pinwheel Quilt {Sewing}

My favorite fabric to work with is the cheery 1930's reproduction prints!  My favorite quilt block is the classic pinwheel.  So I would have to say that one of my favorite quilt creations was a baby quilt I made for my niece.

Well my niece turns 15 years old next month, and when they came to visit recently I had them bring this {my favorite quilt} for me to share with all of you!  I guess this quilt needs an official name so I will call it "Kissy Pinwheel" in honor of my niece Karissa!  Thanks Karissa for inspiring me!  Thanks to my sister Kelly for having her so I had a reason to make it in the first place!

I played around drawing on graph paper {as usual} and decided that if I took the classic pinwheel block and set it on point, that it would appear that the pinwheels were moving.  Sort of doing cartwheels like real pinwheels do!  I loved the movement that doing this gave my quilt.

Then I went into my extensive stash of 1930's reproduction prints {that I've collected for many years} and started having fun!

I love the novelty of these vintage patterns with the flowers and toys and animals!  So many wonderful shapes and prints are to be found!

And the colors of these prints are so cheerful!  What baby wouldn't be happy under a quilt like this?

When I put together a "scrappy" quilt I try to use as many different colors and prints as I can!  This gives any quilt so much more interest.

When making a fun and scrappy quilt, another rule I follow is not to try and match things together.  Let the colors and pieces fall where they may!  This makes a quilt so much more interesting and saves you a lot of time trying to figure out what should go where!

I was so happy with the way this design I came up with turned out and how great the combination of many scraps of colors and prints looked when thrown all together with LOVE!

I simply hand quilted each block {in-the-ditch} so as not to distract from the simple pinwheel design.

I chose to have two borders on my quilt.  The first being smaller and my favorite 1930's bubblegum pink, with the second a bit larger and corresponding yellow to match the back.

I chose a tiny lavender floral print for my binding and a darling yellow vintage reproduction childrens print for my backing.

 Now I just needed the perfect accessory!

Remember my Paper Pinwheels?

 Well I took the same idea and made fabric ones instead.

Placed in button-filled crystal vases...

these would make very cute table settings.

Great  1930's fabric... buttons... fabric pinwheels...  pinwheel quilt blocks... a  baby quilt... sounds like the perfect combination to me!  What do you think?  Oh and  P.S. I have a box full of many more blocks like this too!  I always get carried away and make not one but many.  Something to do on a rainy day I guess!