Sunday, January 20, 2013

Doing Cartwheels

When Lee of Freshly Pieced debuted her Cartwheels pattern, I was lucky enough to win one of the patterns!

I decided to use this pattern for one of the baby quilts I am planning to make this spring and I found out that one of the babies is going to be a girl so I went to work picking colors.


I've been hoarding these fabrics for along time, so I figured a cute baby deserves some REALLY CUTE fabrics. I picked different 12 fabrics for the 12 blocks and then there should be enough of the green diagonal stripe for the binding.

I printed off a pile of the paper pieced templates and finished four of the blocks today:


Using the directional stripe prints made some really cute blocks, in my opinion! It did take a little bit of extra thinking to make the individual units have the fabric going in the same direction.

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10 comments:

  1. looks gorgeous and like candy swirls :)

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  2. This is looking just beautiful! Isn't it a great pattern?!

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  3. that is beautiful! perfect fabrics for that quilt!

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  4. What a fun pattern. Your fabrics are gorgeous.

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  5. That is going to be a cure quilt. You did a fantastic job on the directional stripes! Thanks for linking up with Sew Cute Tuesday:)

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