Disappearing pinwheel

...such a fun little block! I first saw this technique in a Missouri Star Quilt Co. video tutorial --- then Jenny did a part two that resulted in a Churn Dash. Eek! I love those... Jenny strikes me as a very sweet lady. I'd totally like to meet her some day... {grin} Here's a little cheat sheet:

This weekend I started playing with some disappearing pinwheel blocks. I had made a few sample blocks back in 2020 and always wanted to make more. You never know when inspiration is going to strike, and it suddenly did. Sometimes you just have to play in the sewing room! Here's a green Kaffe block. Love it! I also made a blue one. It's a fun process - you make a pinwheel using 4 HSTs, cut the pinwheel into 9 equal pieces and rearrange the pieces. You can see a video tutorial here (with 16…

This is one very special technique that yields many different blocks. Some of the blocks are even traditional blocks such as churn dash and monkey wrench. You can make them in different sizes. Lear…

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Sew a disappearing pinwheel quilt block. Sew it, cut it and sew it again for a new surprise quilt block. Easy and quick!

With this tutorial you can make at least 11 disappearing pinwheel variations and make a quilt sampler out of it. How to make a disappearing pinwheel block Learn how to make a disappearing pinwheel blo

This sampler has 12 blocks in it, all of them made from a pinwheel block cut into a 9-patch block an rearranged to obtain 11 different blocks. More variations are possible. Quilt size 56 inches x 4…

This is one very special technique that yields many different blocks. Some of them are even traditional blocks such as churn dash and monkey wrench. How to make many disappearing quilt blocks from 2 s

This is one of those blocks that start with two squares. It can be made in different sizes though for this demo I’ve chosen a 10″ pre-cut also called layer cake. How to make 4 disappear…

How to make a disappearing pinwheel block Learn how to make this block in less than 2 minutes. Materials Two 9 3/8 inch squares in contrasting fabrics Block size The finished block is 10 1/4 inch s…