Monday Making

After getting my snowball quilt basted....finally.....

...I began some hand quilting this week.

Yeah!!!

Getting all those ugly basting stitches in

takes time...

but it is SO worth it!

I am using Perle cotton....

And hoping to add another color or two as I go.

One snowball at a time!

I posted about basting and quilting this quilt on my you tube channel.

HERE.

What are 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!

Snowball Weather.

Snowball blocks!

It's that time of year, right?

I began with a 5" square

and used 1 3/4" white squares in the corners.

Pressed them back and trimmed the excess.

I found that putting 1 3/4" squares in the corner

was a LOT different than using 2" squares.

I was AMAZED at how a little 1/4" can make

such a BIG difference!!!!

The 1 3/4" white squares are on the LEFT.

The 2" white squares are on the RIGHT.

The difference is not QUITE as obvious here....

but....

I liked the 1 3/4" better.

Too bad....

because I have a nice big box full of 2" squares

ALREADY cut!!!

Now to figure out how to quilt this sweet little baby quilt!!!