I’ve been waiting for just the right baby for this Moda© fabric named “Corner of 5th and Fun” designed by Sandy Gervais. It’s not a current fabric, but there is still some of the fabric line available if you look. I had a border print and two coordinating fabrics in my stash, but only used two of the fabrics in this quilt.

I cut the border print into strips, taking out some of the sky between them. That gave me 3 inch wide strips of slightly cream background fabric I could use in the quilt.

That 3 inch strip of background determined the size of my pinwheel blocks. I used a variety of color- coordinating scraps in my stash to create the 14 little three inch finished pinwheels blocks.

This is a strip quilt, created with 7 sections—two borders, 3 panels pieces and two sets of pinwheels.

I mixed quilting techniques, using my walking foot on most of the sections and free motion quilting on the three panel sections. I liked the kites in the long-arm quilting design what was used on my “Post-Cuts” quilt, so decided to put kites in the free motion quilting in the sky of the village panels. I practiced the kites drawing them by hand first and then looked at the professional long-arm kites. My kites were stitched slightly differently and that’s what I stuck with. My theory is that is always best to stitch free motion designs you can draw rather than try to copy someone else’s! Everyone’s motor skills are different and you need to go with what you body can do.

Here is one of my kites.

The backing can out of my stash of mushroom fabrics. It was printed 10 years ago. I think that makes it a modern vintage fabric! I love the stripes on the stems of these mushrooms, and that the back picks up the idea of mushrooms seen in the border print.

This new baby is part of an extended family which has still has baby quilts I made over 40 years ago! Hopefully the new generation will enjoy their quilts just as long!