This was my capstone project of 2019, and it turned out so well! I ended up doing all of the work on it in the last week before Christmas which was a bit stressful but it came together and I was proud to give it to my extended family 🙂

I used the Holiday Pinwheel pattern from MSQC, but adapted it to just be one column of eight pinwheels. I liked using some paper piecing to make the tiny HSTs, it made cutting fabric much easier. I used four different green fabrics and this wonderful sparkly cream/white background. The blocks came together pretty easily, the inner border with the “holly berry” mini pinwheels took a couple tries to get right (I didn’t understand the instructions so I just did it by measuring) but it ended up great!

I did stitch in the ditch quilting for all of the runner and used a pretty thin cotton batting. Since I know a lot of dishes and stuff had to sit on it, I didn’t want it to be so puffy or too textured. It’s also fully machine washable so it’s all good. In its first machine wash, a couple inches of seams came apart (the sparkly fabric probably needed a full 1/4 inch seam allowance, if not more) so I had to do some hand-sewing repairs, but was ready by the time it was needed 🙂

All in all I was so happy to make something for my family to use and gather around 🙂

Project completed December 23, 2019.