Patriotic Palette Blog Hop

I hope you've been following along on our fun week of the Painter's Palette Blog Hop sponsored by Paintbrush Studios.

Here's where we've been and what we've seen so far in this blog hop:  

Day 1: Fireworks Mini Quilt - Lisa, InspiredbyFabric This is the PaintbrushStudio blog. Visit often!

Day 2: Atomic Blooms - Jayne, TwiggyandOpal

Day 3: Red, White and Blue Star - Elizabeth, OccasionalPiece

Day 4: A Salute to Red, White and Blue - Stephanie, SpontaneousThreads

Day 5: The Pillow That Ate Cleveland - Shelley APigeoninPungo

Welcome to Day 6! 

Here are the others you'll want to visit too:

Day 7, June 30: Cindy Wiens of Live a Colorful Life

Day 8, July 3: Stephanie of Peas in a Pod

All eight of us received these fat quarters with which to design a project. I didn't use the color French Blue. I did use 5/8 yard of Painter's Palette Solid White! 

My design is "Patriotic Pinwheel." It's 24-1/2" X 24-1/2" and has a faced (rather than bound) finished edge.

24-1/2" X 24-1/2"

FREE instructions are here*.

*Six pages of instructions do not include specific details for adding the last two borders (white with blue stripe, and dark blue). The 1"-wide (finished) white border is a little tricky to explain where to position, though it can be made similar to the red stripes. Feel free to copy mine on your own. 

Using EQ7, I came up with this block design. It started as a simple pinwheel block that I changed using the EQ7 "serendipity" feature.

For quilting, I first machine-sewed near the seams to stabilize the whole piece. Then I added big stitch hand-quilting because I like it.

And because we've been away from home for the past 11 days, it was the only way to get this done! 😄
I used size 8 perle cotton that I have on hand - some Presencia and some DMC - in these four colors.

For the dark blue (Patriot) pinwheel, I wanted the appearance of movement, so I turned to my often-used nested acrylic circles to trace curves. 

They're at 1-1/2" intervals.

Hand quilting was fast and fun!

 

For backing and facing, this old - like from 2008 - print works just fine. It's Robert Kaufman's Satinesque by Patrick Lose. 

 

I followed my friend Elizabeth's Faced Binding Tutorial to finish the piece, though instead of a double layer folded facing, I cut mine to make a 2"-wide single layer facing. Tip: Rather than hand sewing down the facing, for a quicker finish use Stitch Witchery to fuse the facing to the backing. Wa-la!

My hand quilting shows up a little.

Now, it's giveaway time! 

This giveaway is closed.

GIVEAWAY - GIVEAWAY - GIVEAWAY

Paintbrush Studio is generously letting me give away the same seven-piece red, white, and blue fat quarter bundle that they sent me! (Each Patriotic Palette blogger is giving away a bundle!)

For a chance to win from FlourishingPalms, just comment.

Sorry, but this giveaway is for USA residents only. 

Be sure to include your email address if you're a no-reply commenter. If I can't contact you, you won't be the winner. 

And let me add that if you don't win, go buy some Painter's Palette Solids anyway! After my first yardage purchase of it at QuiltCon in Savannah, I've been completely sold.

• The hand is fabulous. Not as heavy as some solids; nor as light as others.
• The colors - all 168 of them! - are yummy.
• The colors don't bleed. I'm a pre-washer, so it was wonderful to see a color catcher go into and come out of the washing machine still the same color.
• Paintbrush Studio is in North Kansas City. I have a soft spot for that area because many family members live in KC. 

I'm definitely building my Painter's Palette Solids stash. I buy mine here. Linda