{"product_id":"sds4910-pinwheel-vol4-stamp8","title":"SDS4910 Pinwheel Vol4 Stamp8","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRound and round it goes — a quilt block that has been spinning for more than 200 years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003cstrong\u003ePinwheel\u003c\/strong\u003e is one of the most familiar blocks in patchwork. Four pairs of triangles are turned around a centre point so that the darker pieces seem to spin, just like the little paper pinwheels children have held up to the wind for generations. There are no curves and no complicated shapes — only triangles and contrast — yet the block is full of movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd it has a remarkable history. The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History holds a \u003cstrong\u003e\"Pinwheel\" quilt made in Maryland between 1812 and 1814\u003c\/strong\u003e. According to the family's records, it was made by women of the Adams family \u003cstrong\u003ewhile the men were away fighting in the War of 1812\u003c\/strong\u003e. Its pieced pinwheel blocks alternate with white squares filled with elaborate stuffed quilting in ten different patterns, all framed by a quilted feathered vine border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe quilt was passed down through the family until a great-great-granddaughter of one of its makers donated it to the museum in 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🌬️ Did You Know?\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Pinwheel has spun its way through many names and publications!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRuth Finley included a \u003cem\u003ePin Wheel\u003c\/em\u003e block in her 1929 book \u003cem\u003eOld Patchwork Quilts and the Women Who Made Them\u003c\/em\u003e, and in the 1930s similar designs were published as \u003cstrong\u003eThe Pinwheel, Pin Wheels\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003ePaper Pinwheels\u003c\/strong\u003e by popular pattern sources including Laura Wheeler, Nancy Page and quilt collector Carrie Hall. Related versions have also been called \u003cstrong\u003eWindmill\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe direction of the spin is entirely up to the quilter: turn the triangles one way and it spins clockwise, the other way and it spins counter-clockwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e🧵 A Little Heritage\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew blocks connect us to the past quite like the Pinwheel. The same simple triangles that Adams family women stitched during wartime more than two centuries ago are still being pieced by quilters today — often as one of the very first blocks a new quilter learns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe've captured this spinning classic as \u003cstrong\u003eVolume 4, Stamp 8\u003c\/strong\u003e, giving you another little piece of quilt history to add to your Heritage Quilt Society collection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stitch Delight","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67573079736490,"sku":"SDS4910","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0588\/9802\/2570\/files\/sds4910_003_fc90d051-af44-47ef-836d-cbb876cea501.jpg?v=1791198707","url":"https:\/\/www.stitchdelight.net\/nl\/products\/sds4910-pinwheel-vol4-stamp8","provider":"Stitchdelight.net","version":"1.0","type":"link"}