Green pinwheel block

In an effort to try and finish as many smaller quilts as I could, before the end of the year, I pulled out this piece.  This started out as a square that my daughter made when she was younger, that she was going to make a pillow out of.  In the end, she didn't really like it and put it away.  When we moved here to this house and I started unpacking everything, I came across this green pinwheel block and a blue pinwheel block.  

I asked my daughter what she was doing with it and she just said, "you can do whatever you want with it"....lol.  She knew that, as I was unpacking my quilting stuff, I was sorting everything and dealing with what I could, instead of just shoving everything in a box in the back of some corner to be forgotten forever.....lol.  So I put this and the blue one in the orphan block box to be dealt with later.

I feel the reason she didn't like what she made, was because it was....shall we say....to much green...  I thought so anyways....  I decided to take off that last green border and work with the smaller pinwheel block with the first two borders.

I went into my cupboard of yardage, which is dwindling down quite substantially, to see if I could find something to coordinate with this green.  What I came up with was a piece of froggy fabric, that I have been using, over and over again, and it just won't go away....lol.  It's a cute fabric, but there was just too much of it, that it's been in many of the quilts I've made.

I wanted to keep the design simple so that I could use up more of the froggy fabric and so it could be large enough to see many of the frogs as possible, without being overly overwhelming.  I chose to do a very large froggy border, broken up by a small green border.  It definitely added colour to the "all green" of the original block.  I did the binding in green as well, which you may have noticed on the post of a couple of days ago.

It is a simple cheerful NICU quilt which will be going to Project Linus.

Stay tuned for tomorrows post, where I went back in time, to something I started back in March/2024, and haven't shared with you yet.

Take care everyone.