SNOWBALL PROGRESS

 I've been working on my Snowball top that was started in Sherri Lynn Wood's Improv That Block Squad workshop several weeks ago.

It's been slow progress.  I've only been inspired to work on one row at a time.  

Here's how it looks at this time.  

SNOWBALL WORKSHOP

 Today was the next Improv That Block Squad get-together.  Sherri Lynn Wood introduced us to this month's block - Snowball.

A WHOLE BOBBIN - A WHOLE QUILT

I've been working on getting the center panel of Snowball blocks sewn together.  I think I finished that up the other day.  

Today I started adding the borders and got it all put together.  A quilt in a day!

Center panel of Snowball blocks with first border.

With two borders - the second being a fussy cut flower border.

Then the third border - a wide 8" of flowers.

The next border is purple polka dots.

You know how when you're sewing the border on you run out of bobbin just before the end?  I hate that, you've got it all pinned and are removing the pins as you sew that long seam and then you realize you're out of bobbin thread and haven't really been sewing it together for a while and you have to repin it and wind a new bobbin and start all over?

Well, I kept thinking that was going to happen on every one of these borders as I put them on.  I kept checking and checking, but no.  The bobbin thread just kept going!  And then I started thinking I'd make it to the end of the quilt without running out and it would be a red letter day, but no.  I ran out of thread about 8-1/2" shy of finishing the last seam.  Wouldn't you know it!  

The finished top with the last border of more fussy cut flowers.

This pattern is straight out of Kaffe Fassett's book "Quilts in Ireland".  He calls it "Contrast Brassica Snowballs" - or Brass Balls for short.  (kidding!)

I don't know what I'm going to name it.   Any ideas?

SNOWBALLS

Not that kind - this kind!

I've been busy making Snowball blocks for the center of my next project.

These blocks are made using the sew and flip method on the corners - so you end up with a bunch of leftover half-square triangles.  What do I do with them all?!