Being Patient

“The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.”

Arnold H. Glasgow

Patchwork -and sewing in general- thought me about patience. You simply can not rush or the result will not be to your satisfaction. Believe me, I have done several mistakes in the past. It's not easy. Sometimes I just can not wait to see how it will unfold...how things will  be...but then, like Bon Jovi said in one of his songs "Good things come to those who wait" ..:)

This is what I'm doing now:

That's the lay out of my happy quilt :-)...and now I'm still tugging, pulling and squashing....

Hopefully my spondylitis will compromise now.

Until then....happy sewing

Tutorial: Whirlwind Heart

“For pleasure has no relish unless we share it.” 

― Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader: First Series

In my previous post, I mentioned about the block I made for Friendship Quilt. I really enjoyed making that block . The idea I took from Australian Quilting magazine but I did some alteration in size and used pinwheel instead of plain squares and HST . 

Here I try to make a little tutorial which I hope will help if you want to make one.

The finish block is 12" x 12" 

Since I'm not good with words, I prefer to show you  with  picture. If you have any question, please do not hesitate to email me.

So here we go, the first step is  making the pinwheel. 

Second is  making the HST  and cutting the squares:

and now you're ready to arrange and sew the blocks :

I hope this help if you want to make the whirlwind heart :)

Happy Sewing ^_^