"P" is for Pinwheel

July 4th pinwheel tree.

 Red, white and blue gets me every time.

I made 50 fabric pinwheels and attached them to a large branch.

I used glass ball headed straight pins to hold the pinwheel together in the center:

Here's how I did it:

1. Using scraps of red, white and blue fabrics I made about 50 pinwheels using this method.

2. I made 3", 2 1/2" and 2" squares for this tree.

3. After the fabric squares were ready I used a glass ball headed straight pin and stabbed through the four corners then down the middle to form the pinwheel:
* Before you stab down the middle dab some hot glue on your pin to keep it all in place.

4. Keeping about 1/8" of the pin shaft I bent off the remainder with pliers.

5. Apply hot glue and stab tiny pin shaft into branch:

Unfortunately my pinwheels don't actually spin but I like them just as they are.

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