This quilt is made with a block called Waterwheel. The alternate block is the same block, except that the half square triangles in the waterwheel block are replaced by solid squares.

The quilt has a chain pattern in the alternate blocks but because the chain is white, it’s not obvious.

Because the block is supposed to be a waterwheel, I hand quilted a circle in the middle of each of the wheels. I thought it would take me a quite a while to do the hand stitching but it went quickly. I drew around a mason jar with a chalk pencil for fabrics and then did a running stitch over the chalk line. I ran a 1+ inch of thread through the layers to start the stitching, did a tiny first stitch to lock the thread and then started stitching over the lock stitch. At the end took another tiny stitch, ran the thread back through the layer a couple inches, pulled the needle up and cut the thread. That’s how I was taught to do hand quilting.

Looking through my stash, the fabric that matched best is a Christmas tree and bird fabric. So here’s a quilt that can stay out from Advent to Valentine’s Day. I do like a multi-season quilt.