Candy Pinwheel Quilt

My daughter trying her hardest to hold up the quilt

As promised, today I'm sharing the finished Candy Pinwheel quilt, made from my Candy Pinwheel block of the Festival of Half Square Triangles. (To see more on the block and quilt assembly, check out my Candy Pinwheel tutorial.) A few of you asked how I was planning on starting and ending my rows. As you can see, I decided to use a solid turquoise fabric. I really love this color, it's probably one of my current favorites - FreeSpirit Designer Solid in Light Jade.

For the corners, I left off one half square triangle to give this angled look. I thought that was pretty cool...my daughter (the recipient of the quilt) almost starting crying because "my quilt is missing the corners!" Well, I still like it.

As I mentioned on Wednesday, I decided to make the Candy Pinwheel blocks either all warm or all cool colors. Mostly...there are always exceptions to the rule and I do have a few that used a warm/cool combination.

I quilted this with straight lines, 1/4" down each side of the diagonal seams. I was actually a bit nervous to quilt this, because my daughter wanted minky on the back. I followed many people's advice to just use a lot of pins and my walking foot (which I already use anyway) and really, the quilting proved to be a non-event. No issues whatsoever. And the end result gives a nice, poofy look to the quilted squares.

The quilt measures 39-1/2" x 47". It is bright, happy, super cuddly, and already much loved. And on a very random side note, does anyone know what kind of daffodils these beautiful flowers are? :)