Originally Posted by
Julie in NM
Now you much fun did you guys have making this? And a project w/your mom...great memories for the both of you. Just love love the pattern! Job well done! I love making snowball blocks but never thought of this idea. Oh...just love it. Did I already say that?
Julie,
The main trick with these particular snowballs is to trim out the middle layer (I usually do NOT trim out that middle layer if I'm planning to machine quilt - keeping it in allows you to more easily/correctly line up to the next block/segment), and to press the seams open where 4 snowballs meet....in this case at all the star points.
It's R-E-A-L-L-Y thick and makes the fabrics ripple when pressed if you don't take those two steps. (Poor Mom went first starting on her quilt; I got the bennie of hindsight when I began mine a few hours later!)
Hours later this still hangs on my design board 6 feet away from me and I'm still looking at it constantly, LOL; the colors are even more fabulous "up close and personal"!
Sometimes you really like a quilt you've made.
Sometimes one just knocks your socks off.
I'm barefooted.
Jan in VA