This is my GillyWhig Quilt. I would have called it the WhirlyGig Quilt, but my husband couldn't remember that name. GillyWhig is what came to his mind. So GillyWhig it will be called! (Though he just called it something new - Squirlywiggle. Excuse me, I've been notified that it should be two separate words - Squirly Wiggle. I like this one a lot. Looks like I might need to make another quilt!)
It's a round quilt, because I couldn't get those darn 90 degree corners to work! Well, that's not the only reason, but it's a nice thing to think about!
My husband suggested a pinwheel quilt and I decided I liked the idea, so I found the pinwheel block and created my own design from there. I like the above pinwheel though, where the lighter color is 2x as large, as opposed to the ones where they're the same size. This is more like the real whirligiggles.
I/my husband also thought that the wigglewirls were way too pointy, so I used that fancy plate tool to curve off the corners. (Not the ones that met in the center, just at the top of the light triangles.)
I then had to sew curves!! First ever, from what I recall. I used the curved pinwheel as a template for the blue triangle piece. (It would have been a lot quicker if I had made a real template. Each one was a little different (darn those plates), so I had to trace each individual blade of the whiggywhirls. Took much longer. But it ended eventually!)
Sew those curves! I didn't bother pinning. There was lots of haphazarding going on, so I was ok w/o pinning and just squaring things up in the end.
The blue end seems a little wonky, just ending in the middle of the side, but with the 1/4 inch seam when I sew it to the blue background, it'll curve nicely into the seam, no odd endings. I love my rainbow of girlywhigs.
Husband likes the blue and green and purple. I love the dark orange, red and pink. (Sorry for the off colors, I'm photographing inside under a yellow bulb at night.) But that's why there are so many! So everyone can have a favorite!
I love my pretty rainbow.
What I don't love are blisters. Like the following blister I got from steam!! Evil steam.
Never have your fingers close to the top of a pot of cooking rice as you take off the lid! Your finger will blister up and get all shiny and painful!
The only thing I had in the freezer that wouldn't defrost and get all nasty as I sat through a concert that night was a bag of chocolate chips. They didn't help a great deal with the pain, but they were a tasty treat while I listened to the orchestra! Chocolate cures everything!
See you soon!
(with fewer injuries, I hope!)
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