Amish Snowballs

I began a new quilt!

Whee!

It's so much fun to begin.

This is a happy go lucky project

that's making MY summer sewing very happy!

Here's a short HOW TO on my

Amish Snowflakes

As you can see...

I am making a nine patch setting of 

NINE snowballs.

(there are FOUR nine patch blocks in the photo above)

The corner triangles alternate between

DARK blue

and
LIGHT blue.

I'm working on ONE 9 patch at a time.

I have NO idea how it's going to end.

I might introduce a few new colors along the way.

SO FUN!

My snowballs are 3 1/2"

The corner triangles are cut with a 2" strip

then subcut into 2" squares.

THEN I cut them diagonally for triangles.

I am placing them on each corner

EYEBALLING IT

and sewing them on.

So far....so good.

I am NOT trying to get the triangles 

ALL to be the same.

Just like snowflakes.

They'll all be a little different.

After sewing, the triangles need to be PRESSED.

Here's bad photo of the trimming process.

The snowflake is upside down.

I am using the dark square as my GUIDE.

After trimming from the back...

I turn the block over, lift the corners up

and trim those little back

 tiny triangles OFF.

CAREFULLY.

;)

I tend to hurry and this is one time

I have to slow down a bit!

LOL!

After making NINE snowballs...

I join them for a 9 1/2" square block.

I am going to keep making 

Snowballs in the summer!