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Home / My Blog / Classes and workshops / Mod Pinwheel Quilt

Mod Pinwheel Quilt

May 4, 2015 By Katie

SEW KATIE DID:MOD Pinwheel side

I’m continuing my documentation of projects that haven’t yet made it to my Quilts Page for one reason or another.

Mod Pinwheel is another quilt pattern Jacquie and I created for Quilting Modern that didn’t make the cut, but is available as a free e-book.

SEW KATIE DID:MOD Pinwheel 3

The adjective Mod is a little off for this quilt in my opinion, but we named it years ago.  When I look at it now it speaks to the traditional side of quilting that I love, with a taste of something a little different.

SEW KATIE DID:MOD Pinwheel Quilt Detail

It’s these ‘eyes’ that are the twist, removing it one step from a traditional straight set layout.

SEW KATIE DID:MOD Pinwheel Full

Hanging this quilt up gave me a new appreciation for it.

As always, I have a love/hate relationship going on with this quilt.  A little more thought with the value and color placement might have elevated the design, but truly I think this is a pattern that speaks to going scrappy, something we stayed away from in the book, but where my heart really is in quilting.

SEW KATIE DID:MOD Pinwheel EYE

I see myself playing with this foundation pieced block again with a bin of scraps to see if my vision is true.  What a great baby quilt it would make.

SEW KATIE DID:MOD Pinwheel Binding

Teal dot for the binding and a delicious red dot flannel for the back.

SEW KATIE DID:MOD Pinwheel Detail

If I had to pull one component that I love most in this quilt it would be the quilting by Angela Walters combined with the flannel backing.  Oh wait, that’s two.

SEW KATIE DID:REMIX

I pulled out some sample blocks to dream up something new with, but ‘been there done that’ set in and cutting seemed necessary.

You can make your own Mod Pinwheel with the instructions posted here.

SEW KATIE DID:Flooring

I went ahead and ordered the flooring on the right for the studio.  We’ll hopefully install it and paint in the next few weeks.  Three Berninas have arrived for student use and tool kits are collected.

Things are coming together;)

Have a great week peeps!

Filed Under: Classes and workshops, Improvisational Quilting Classes, Improvisational Quilts, Innovative Patchwork Piecing, modern quilt, Modern Quilting, Modern Quilting Classes, Modern Quilts, Quilting Modern techniques and projects for improvisational quilts Tagged With: classes, free-motion quilting, improvisational patchwork, modern quilt, modern quilting, modern quilting instructor, seattle, sewing classes, workshops

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  1. Vicki says

    May 4, 2015 at 2:22 pm

    Looks great, Katie. That’s a classic 2009 color scheme you’ve got there, as well. 🙂 (I’m sewing with those colors this week.)

    • sewkatiedid says

      May 4, 2015 at 2:58 pm

      haha, so true;)

  2. Dana Henry says

    May 4, 2015 at 2:28 pm

    OMG! I love this quilt! the colors speak to me. Great job

    • sewkatiedid says

      May 5, 2015 at 12:50 pm

      Thanks Dana. I love the colors too;)

  3. yourock2 says

    May 4, 2015 at 2:39 pm

    love art

  4. Roxanne Miner says

    May 4, 2015 at 9:15 pm

    really enjoying the renovation journey!! My sewing room flooring is very similar!

    • sewkatiedid says

      May 5, 2015 at 12:49 pm

      I hope I’ll love it!

  5. Life as Mrs. A says

    May 4, 2015 at 9:18 pm

    I think it’s funky and would ale a great quilt for a teenager!

  6. Life as Mrs. A says

    May 4, 2015 at 9:18 pm

    Whoops I meant ‘make’ not ‘ale’

    • sewkatiedid says

      May 5, 2015 at 12:49 pm

      haha!

  7. totrockmom says

    May 4, 2015 at 9:31 pm

    I love it! So visually striking.

    • sewkatiedid says

      May 5, 2015 at 12:51 pm

      It does have nice movement. Thanks for the compliment.

  8. ellegeemakes says

    May 4, 2015 at 11:53 pm

    It’s so wonderful! I love the fabrics you chose. You have an great eye.

    • sewkatiedid says

      May 5, 2015 at 12:51 pm

      Fabric combining doesn’t come easy to me, so thanks!

  9. Emily Woodward Taylor says

    May 6, 2015 at 1:18 pm

    Beatuiful!

  10. rhiannon228 says

    May 7, 2015 at 5:21 am

    🙂

  11. 2bleubirdzsssing4u says

    May 9, 2015 at 12:57 pm

    I really like this pattern. It has a lot of movement, as they say, and a little of the unexpected. Both are great design elements. Great colors you chose and it would be great with solids on gray, too. That would definitely make it look modern. 🙂

    • sewkatiedid says

      May 11, 2015 at 11:47 am

      Good idea with the gray!

  12. Cheryl Arkison says

    May 12, 2015 at 3:27 pm

    This might be one of my favourite quilts of yours! That colour combo was so trendy years back, but this still looks great! I would happily make with those colours all the time. And yes, the ‘eyes’ have it!

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