.Pinwheels for the kiddos.

Back in the day, before I was consumed with my sewing hobby, I dabbled a bit in scrapbooking.  I remember looking at double sided papers back then and thinking to myself that it was such a silly idea, because you would only see one side of the paper in a scrapbook layout anyway.  My thoughts about double-sided paper have since subsided, now I think they rock.

Presenting last night's work of art - Pinwheel Canvas... 

 

Double-sided paper was awesome because it meant that I didn't have to worry about sticking two single-sided pieces together, making for a very quick and easy Saturday night craft :)

It was fun.  I bought a massive canvas last year, wanting to make an art display similar to this for a blank wall in the kids bedroom.  I still love the idea and want to do it sometime, but pinwheels have been calling my name for quite awhile now and after being inspired by Sam's Butterfly Canvas I could picture a bright and colour pinwheel wall art being made in a similar way.

I really love how it turned out, even more so the next morning (things always look/seem better the next day, don't they?!) and it will definitley inject a bright punch of colour into their bedroom.

A few specifications for people who want to make something similar themselves...

Making pinwheels is really, really easy - just google for a tutorial if you aren't sure.  If you use double-sided paper, it is much faster.  You can stick two pieces of printed paper back to back using some glue or spray adhesive if you want to though.

I cut my squares for the pinwheels at 11cm x 11cm.  My canvas size was 90cm x 60cm.  I made 28 pinwheels.

I used a random selection of brads from my old scrapbooking supplies for the center of each pinwheel then arranged them on the canvas and stuck them down with a hot glue gun.  (Make sure they are in the correct position before sticking them down, it is really hard to pull them off once the glue is set and makes a mess of your canvas...ask me how I know...)

In hindsight, I'm wondering if it may have looked better if all of the pinwheels were sitting in random directions rather than all uniformly lined up like mine are - I did pull a couple off and play around with the direction but it lifted the white coating off the canvas and was going to be very messy so I stopped (- now you know how I know...)

Anyway, I'm loving it and it was a nice change from the crazy sewing of samples that I have been making of late to take to the Craft and Quilt Fair in Sydney.  I think making a similar canvas using all the one colour or even all of the one paper would look striking too - how many pinwheel canvases can one house have?!

P.S. The market in Ulverstone on Friday night was great - such an impressive turn out, lovely to meet lots of new faces and although I was there with Citrus Pop, it was fun to talk sewing for a lot of the night too!