Clockwise Pinwheel Coasters

This spring the MMQG hosted a "get inspired" challenge. The guidelines were to find inspiration and use it to make a quilty project. Inspirations and projects were shared at the April meeting, which I had to miss :(

I spent the first months of this year finding inspiration in everything... board games, sunsets, bookcovers. I noticed Evil Twin beers - their labels are fantastic and so many of them would translate easily into modern quilts. Their logo even looks like a quilt block.

I searched and searched for this quilt block. Whirlygig? That's a completely different block. Sawtooth? That's another quilt block, which I think looks less like a sawblade than this one. Sawblade? Pinwheel? 8-pointed star? swirly 8-pointed star? 8-pointed star pieced with templates? It seems like this is one kind of pinwheel block, with the pins wheeling in the opposite direction than normal. Who is the authority on quilt blocks and their names? My searches grew increasingly vague yet wordy.

I stepped away from Google and whipped up templates for what I am calling the Clockwise Pinwheel block. Printed at 100% it will make 4.5" (unfinished) blocks, a perfect size for coasters.

 

A photo posted by @carriebee04 on May 12, 2015 at 6:38pm PDT

I made 4 variations: rainbow, half rainbow, two-tone and monochrome. I'll be making more cool-colored coasters soon so the blue one will not look so lonely. I'll post a tutorial next week as well. Cheers!