Tarnished Windmill 2018

The Tarnished Windmill was designed by Bradley and Judy Niemeyer. These instructions teach a strip piecing technique that expands on our traditional foundation paper piecing approach to complete lone star units. Strips are sewn onto foundation paper to complete what we call a ‘Strip Set’. After the strip sets are completed, they are cut apart, rearranged, and resewn into a diamond star point. The technique evolved from seeing some common assembly approaches between the Summer Solstice and Bali Fever Backgrounds. Judy began experimenting with ways to speed up the creation of a lone star block with a strip to eliminate cutting, while also minimizing fabric waste.

The Tarnished Windmill star was designed using 3” strips for the strip piecing. It incorporates a paper pieced 10″ windmill block and the general assembly process was designed with no Y-Seams. It uses yardage very efficiently at just over 7 Yards of fabric for the top!

There are many ways to expand your Quiltworx designs into larger sizes with compatible border packages by clicking the Buy Now button. If listed, you should purchase the Introduction Booklet for the size quilt you want. Then, you should select expansion borders of your choice. The following information explains ways to expand your quilt.

To increase the size of your quilt from 60×60 to 99×99, purchase the Solstice Queen Mixer Introduction booklet, and your choice of a 242C and 242D border packages under the Buy Now button.
To in crease the size of your quilt from 60″ x 60″ to 118″ x 118″ purchase the Solstice Queen Mixer Introduction Booklet, although it’s not king it assembles the same way. Then, you will need your choice of a 242C border, a 281D border and a 277H border.

This pattern is available in Quiltster! This means you can color the quilt with your favorite fabric collections in Quiltster before you make it. Quiltster will even provide you with yardage! You can also purchase kits designed by Quiltster Sellers right in the application!

Click on the Project button to access the pattern templates and begin coloring with fabrics uploaded from your stash and/or fabric collections from across the industry! A Quiltster account is required to use the coloring tool. If you do not have a Quiltster account already, you will need to subscribe and log in before these links will work. Subscriptions can be obtained by going to http://www.quiltster.com, click on Subscribe!

If you’d like to purchase a kit from a Quiltster Seller, click the Marketplace button! A subscription is not needed in Quiltster to purchase a kit through the Marketplace.

Click below for a downloadable .PDF of various kitting handouts!

Size: 60″ x 60″
Price: $51.00
Pattern Includes: Instructions, Cover Sheet, Yardage Information, Foundation Papers

2018 Tarnished Windmill Kitting Handouts: