St. Patty's Day Pinwheels and More

Hurray, it's time to sew with green fabrics!  Have you seen Leap Year? (such a great romantic movie!  Set in Ireland, so fits with March, as well as February.)

I took out some old projects, unfinished ones and tied some green ribbon on my carousel horse made by my friend, Donna long ago.  

I found this wire shamrock at the $1.25 store.  Here's my Heart wreath post with link to the tutorial.

 I doodled some ideas for new projects.  Here's a tutorial for the mini, Celtic Knot wall hanging

I recently made this scrappy St. Patty's Day Pinwheel pillow cover, using this mini quilt tutorial here.

The Shamrock table topper was made using this tutorial

I added some free motion quilting to this pillow cover, I made years ago.  See the free, paper pieced, shamrock, template.  I improvised and left a petal off on two of the shamrocks.

This little shamrock was also made using the template mentioned above, a long time ago.  I added a border and love to see it hanging on the tiny quilt stand

Recently, I added free motion quilting and binding to the mini shamrock.  I used the wonder clips to hand sew the binding down which I don't usually do and wondered how people can actually hand sew down binding on a large quilt!  My friends say it is relaxing and they enjoy it, but it takes practice.

I started making more of these double Irish chain blocks.  I have a layout of how to make the blocks in this post.

Linking up with Alycia Quilts

Here's a link to a post with lots more St. Patrick's Day projects and I'll be back soon with more.