Pinwheels Galore!

I have lots of pinwheels finished. I made 48 for my block exchange this Sunday. My log cabin blocks are finished, too, so I am ready to go! I like making pinwheel blocks, but sometimes when I have a lot to sew, I start looking at them and do not see if there is a problem. I had to be careful to make sure all my fabrics were in the correct order so that a pinwheel design was made when I finished my last seam. Sometimes surprises sneak in at the oddest times. All my pinwheels do not go in the same direction. That was not a requirement of the exchange. This picture below is of two pinwheels made from the cast off triangles from one of the steps in Bonnie Hunter's Carolina Christmas Mystery Quilt. When I sewed that step, I sewed an extra seam at each end of the piece so that when I cut off the excess fabric, I had already sewed my little HSTs. These blocks measure 3 inches unfinished. I have a plan for a quilt with these pinwheels. You can see the full basket below. They are the rest of the HSTs that I sewed from the cast off fabric. I sewed together eight of them to make these two pinwheels so that I could get a feel as to how big the blocks would be. I don't know how big the quilt will be until I sew all the little pinwheels together and place them into the block I have planned to make with them. I know I am crazy, but I love pinwheels, and I love using that cast off fabric. That is one reason why it took me longer making the mystery quilt. I was also sewing all those little HSTs as well as the other part of that step. I also have a baggie with many little HSTs from another quilt I am working on. When I sew two pieces together, there are left over triangles to be trimmed, so I made HSTs from those cast off pieces. I am not sure what I will do with those yet. The background fabric is the same as with the pinwheels I am making from Bonnie's mystery quilt, so maybe I can use them all together in one quilt. I don't know yet if they will be the same size because I have not sewn any of those pinwheels together yet. I think those strips were the same size as the strips in the mystery quilt. Sounds promising! There are so many little pieces of fabric flying around my sewing room amidst the stacks of fabrics and UFOs. I pulled out a couple of baskets of scraps the other day. I wanted to cut them up into usable pieces, but I did not have time that day to work on the scraps. That will be a project for another day I guess. A friend asked me today if I had used bamboo batting. I have not, yet, but I have wanted to try it. If you have used it, please let me know your assessment of the bamboo batting. Happy Quilting