Pinwheels and Greetings

Pinwheel Card for Mom

Inspiration for me seems to show up randomly.  It also usually shows up while I'm ironing. To give you a little perspective my ironing board is a permanent fixture in my craft room. It sits in front of the window and just to the left of it is the desk that I use for making my cards also sitting on the desk is my small TV where I catch the morning news. So as I iron whatever I've chosen to wear to work for the day and as I catch up on the news I glance at all the colorful papers, patterns, and rubber stamps that haven't been put away.  I may shuffle them a bit and that's when an idea starts to form. And that is exactly what happened when I started working on my mom's June card. 

Not put away yet was an origami pattern for making a folded star and recently I had seen an article on fabric folded origami.  With my idea now firmly planted I started looking for fabric that would make a fun pinwheel and then I started cutting out the squares I would need for the folded stars. Next, I ironed the origami folds onto my fabric. I was surprised that the fabric folded just as easy as the paper did. Then I ironed my shape flat and added just a touch of gold glitter to the edges of the fabric to keep it from fraying and to give it a tiny bit of sparkle.  For the "pin" in the pinwheel I used an extra small yo-yo. The pinwheel stick is a skewer that I cut to size and painted with a brown Sharpie marker.