I recently helped my son’s school group learn about the artist MC Escher. As part of any good art presentation, of course I had to incorporate quilting!

I started by browsing through my stacks of cut strips to see what I could work with. I decided on a pink and brown combo for a baby quilt. I’ll make the same one in blue, later.

I started with 2 1/2″ wide cut strips – my own jelly roll stash. Then I subcut a bunch of rectangle units into 4 1/2″ long pieces – 4 rectangles per fabric to make one pinwheel each.

I put the pieces on my design wall to see how the block would look. Satisfied with the arrangement, I sewed the rectangles into units and joined the unit pairs to make the blocks.

Here’s two rows of nestled pinwheel blocks inspired by the late Maurits Cornelis Escher: (Notice the center pinwheels formed by the brown background pieces – that’s tesselation!)

I’ll keep making blocks until I have enough for a crib sized quilt. One of the moms in our group is expecting a baby but doesn’t know the gender yet. If it’s a girl, she’ll get this one. If it’s a boy, I’ll make the same design in shades of blue!