Finishing Your Spinning Wheels Quilt!
This is the final lesson of the 2025 Stash Buster Challenge! This month, we will add the sashing strips, and combine all 9 blocks to create your beautiful version of Spinning Wheels!
- After November's lesson, you should have 9 total Spinning Wheels blocks, each measuring 24.5" square.
You will need to use your remaining 3.5" square units (from step 8 on page 7 of your pattern book) to create the sections of sashing pictured below.
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Combine (2) 3.5" units with one cream 2" x 3.5" rectangle to make the pictured units for your sashing. You will need to make 12 total units. (Refer to Page 7, step 10)
Next, gather the remaining cream rectangles and the 2" dark squares shown below. All of these pieces combine to form the sashing around your quilt blocks.
- Use the diagram on page 8 of your pattern book to lay out your quilt, using all the remaining pieces.
- In order to make the quilt randomly scrappy, it is important to lay the blocks and sashing pieces out and place the cream rectangles in a way that you are happy with your color distribution. I laid mine on the floor next to the table where I sew, and then I could easily pick up and add each piece together in the right order. Here is what it will look like when you're laying out your blocks and sashing:
Create your sashing in the following order:
- Sew (4) dark 2" squares to the ends of (3) cream 2" x 24.5" rectangles. You will need a total of (4) of these long strips of sashing.
- Combine (4) 2" x 24.5" rectangles with (3) Spinning Wheels blocks to create each row of blocks in your quilt. You will have 3 rows of 3 blocks each.
- Sew your quilt center together by alternating the Step 1 long & narrow sashing strips with the Step 2 block strips. You should now have your quilt center finished, and ready to add the outside pieced border units!
The final border is created using the pieced sections (pictured below), combined with the remaining small and large cream rectangles.
Pinning is very helpful as you add the long sashing strips, and when you are adding each border. You want the dark squares of the sashing to fit perfectly against the cream rectangle. Pin at each of the dark square edges to help your piecing be crisp at these intersections.
