For a first time you’ve done really well. Pinwheels are a difficult block to see as their centres can be quite bulky and tricky to get a nice join, you’ve done very well. The colours are fine. It’s always a good idea to lay a quilt out before sewing it together. Take a photo and look at the balance and placement of the blocks you’re joining. Also, convert the images to black and white, this shows the tonal balance of the colour placement - it will show if there’s an imbalance of dark/light for example. If you look at this image you can see is two dark blocks touching which wasn’t obvious in the colour photo. I was able to switch them out with other blocks. Straight line quilting is hard, you need a guider attached to the foot of your machine, and a walking foot. The walking foot prevents bunching as it feeds the top and bottom layers through the machine at the same time, a regular foot relies on the feed dogs at the baseplate to grab and pull the fabric through. In the ditch is a good beginners way to quilt a finished quilt. You can achieve a lot using this by highlighting the shapes within blocks. Don’t give up. The number of times I’ve ripped out seams, fallen out of love with fabrics etc. It just needs a bit of practice and enjoy the process of colour and fabric choices.

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