I went to a Bonnie Hunter class last year and she makes a lot of scrappy quilts. She cuts all her quilt pieces out of 3", 2.5", 2" and 1.5" strips. Anything less than 1.5" she calls strings, and uses them for string quilting. I started a quilt in her class and it has some little bitty pieces.
So, that's the background. My cousin sent me some t-shirts to make a quilt for his daughter. Most t-shirt quilts are cut 12.5" squares from the shirts and have a border around each square. I wanted to do something different. Some of the t-shirt designs had to be cut 15.5" in order to keep the entire image. So in my graphing of the layout, I ended up needing some "filler" squares. The filler squares were all 5.5" and I wanted a variety of pieced blocks. So I went to EQ7, laid out a quilt background with 5" squares and plopped a variety of blocks in the squares. I then printed off the block rotary cutting instructions so I would know what size to cut the pieces.
This block came out of the Antique Mosiac library.
When Joe saw the center pinwheel, he said he liked this block better than any block I had made. The flat side of the pinwheel is 1". The block is 5.5" square. Those were some little pieces compared to what I usually piece. (No comment about some of the flat points, please.)
I sewed them together in pairs of two. Joe said they look like wheels. Did I mention that the t-shirts were all Harley Davidson? Rather fitting, don't you think?
