Rainbow Mosaic Pillow from Vintage Quilt Revival

This week's VQR quilt isn't a quilt. This is my Rainbow Mosaic pillow.

This pillow starts with a relatively simple pinwheel block made entirely from half-square triangles. But this project is in the "Re-Imagined Blocks" section of the book, which is the section in which we make design tweaks to the actual block, as opposed to just changing the settings or colors.

I liked the idea of expanding the design outward—and that meant paper-piecing. It makes for a dynamic design that works perfectly with a rainbow color scheme.

Vintage Quilt Revival is now in stock at Barnes and Noble, Walmart, Fat Quarter Shop, possibly your local quilt shop—basically everywhere except Amazon. We have no idea what their problem is. Too busy developing drones to put our book on the shelves, I guess.

Also, just a friendly paper-piecing PSA: Double-check those printer settings, you guys! Whether you're working from Vintage Quilt Revival or any other paper-piecing pattern, the default printer setting in Adobe Acrobat is often "Fit To Page." This will result in your templates printing at 95% size instead of 100%, which, believe it or not, will result in a 12.5" block being a full inch too small. All you have to do is check the "Actual Size" option in the print dialogue and everything will go much more smoothly. The more you know ... 😊