Monday Making

I am working away on my amish snowball quilt.

One little 3 1/2" square at a time.

Each square has four little tiny triangles in the corner.

After sewing on the little triangles...

there is trimming to do.

There are NINE snowballs in each block.

My goal is to make 48 nine patches

There should be 432 snowballs in the quilt when I'm done.

I'm not even 1/2 way there!!!

Quilting takes a BIT of patience.

Just. a. BIT.

LOL

What a re YOU making this week??

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!