Patriotic Pinwheels

     I found this project on youtube.  I was watching some patriotic DIY videos last week looking for something new.  I found this fun pinwheel project and I knew I had everything in my stash to make a few of these.   The person who did the video is Rebecca Virginia DIY.  The link to the video is here.  This video has 20 projects in it.  I want to say this is about the 2nd or 3rd project she shows in that video.  I will put some written instructions here just in case you don't feel like finding the actual video instructions.

    These are the pinwheels I made.  

    Cut two 4" squares from patriotic or solid fabric.  I used a combination.  Cut 2 -  4" squares of Heat & Bond Iron On Adhesive.  Iron the heat and bond to the wrong side of each 4" square.  Remove the paper from the Heat and Bond and place the two pieces of fabric wrong side together and iron together so you now have a 2 sided piece of stiff fabric.  Trim the edges of each square with your pinking shears just enough to give it a pinked edge.  I think I took about 1/8" of fabric off each edge.  Find the center of your square and mark it, measure out 1" from the center and mark that in each corner, cut the corner of each square toward the center with the pinking shears up to the 1" mark.  Turn down alternate corners and hot glue to the center.  Hot glue an appropriate button or charm in the center.  You can glue these to skewers, chop sticks or quarter inch 12" dowels.  

    I made two modification to these instructions.  I only used 1 square of Heat and Bond for each pinwheel since it's two sided, you really don't need the heat and bond on the back of both squares.  I also didn't measure and mark the places to cut the corners, I just eyeballed it, it worked fine.  I didn't want to make any marks on my fabric. 

    I can see me making these for other holidays and also making them into a banner.  Pinwheels aren't just for summer.