“Pinwheel Farm” by Linda Syverson Guild
This month’s challenge took my mind to the windmills that are scattered across the plains. I wondered what-if, the posts rising from the ground below the edge of the quilt supported a field of pinwheels.
I set to work sketching possible layouts and settled on one that worked off of a 20 by 20 grid. The sketch was so fun that I transferred the idea to a 20” square grid.
Dimension was created by make the smaller pinwheels appear to be in the distance seemly emerging from the 4 background pinwheels that comprise the sky. As they move closer to the foreground, the pinwheels get larger and darker.
Finally, they were all edge stitched to suggest that the pinwheels are being pushed by the wind.
I love seeing the "wind farms" when we travel out West and this reminds me so much of that peaceful landscape. Congratulations on a job well done.
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