musical pinwheels quilt

twas the night before my final long arm rental at meissner's (that should show you how long ago this was made...) and i had hardly anything to quilt.  i think i only had my snails quilt, which wasn't very big at all, and i didn't want to let my last day go to waste.  i had all the scrap pieces leftover from judy's migration music quilt, so i started sewing those triangles together to make squares and seeing what i could come up with.  well, i came up with this pinwheel-ish creation!
because i was working late in to the night, i literally only had what was in my fabric stash to come up with something.  i had a good amount of triangles in the end, but was still a few short to make a full HST quilt top.  i had a few chunks of red fabrics that didn't get used up, so i measured out my blocks and cut big focal pieces to coordinate with everything to help offset the missing pieced blocks.  and luckily, i also had a TON of this red leftover for the border, which helped make things just a little bit bigger in order to get it a good size.
it was fun to use this triangley pantograph all over to go along with the half square triangles of the quilts. it also made for a nice switch up with using something loopy like i have on most other music quilts.  i also used this quilt as another practice run for doing machine binding!
so when i said i only had what was in my fabric stash to work with, i really meant it... down to the batting and the backing.  i had to frankenstein some batting scraps together, which was an easy feat since i had done it a few times now with various projects.  but the back... that was a creation all to itself.  i was grabbing yardage of all shapes and sizes to see what i could create to be the right size for this quilt to be on the long arm.  there are at least three different projects these came from, not counting all the times some of these fabric have been used in music quilts.  of course, i had to photograph the back for future generations to admire... or really just for me to high five myself a lot when i'm feeling down.
this quilt ended up getting donated to my former high school's band program (which i'm sure you know by now was where i spent my high school years) and was raffled off at their annual crab feed.  now that i've worked most of the red fabrics out of my stash, now i can get back to the traditional black & white ones for next year's crab feed. maybe i'll even throw some gold in there to make it real fancy!
if i hadn't thrown this quilt top together, not only would i have wasted a final day of long arm renting, but i also wouldn't have met genevieve and gotten in the loop with her and the other quilters for her "cohort" laqca.com where i am lucky enough to rent from now :)
pattern information:
half square triangles, my own layout
quilt count: 117