A Bright, Red, Scrappy Saturday

This week I finished the red Pond Lily block (which I am not going to continue as a RSC, another True Lovers Knot block, and a Snowball Blossom block. The more Snowball Blossom blocks I make, the more I remember why I quit making them last year, but I'm determined to finish that quilt this year.




Here is my revised plan for the Snowball Blossom blocks. I need twenty-five blocks which means I'll be making two or three of each color I use.  It will be a good size for a baby quilt or throw, so I'll probably aim for the brighter colors.

And this is my plan for the True Lovers Knot block. I am enjoying this block so far but have discovered that it needs a scant 1/4 inch seam.

Linking to:
ScrapHappy Saturday #2 at soscrappy
Main Crush Monday at Cooking up Quilts
Oh Scrap! at Quilting is More Fun than Housework

Rainbow Scrap Challenge Week 1

My goal this week was to make one Snowball Blossom, one True Lovers Knot, and one Pond Lily.

If you think that the Snowball Blossom looks like the Snowball Flower blocks I made in last year's RSC, you are exactly right.  I just got tired of the name and thought I'd change it for 2019. lol  I found the pattern on Lisa Boyer's blog Dorky Homemade Quilts but there is nothing dorky about the quilt she made. Her corners all lined up perfectly too. Mine did not, so maybe I should have called mine dorky blossoms. She named her block and quilt The Puakenikeni Baby Quilt, but I am not even going to try to pronounce or spell that again, and since it looks like a flower made from snowball blocks, I named mine Snowball Flower in January 2018. Like she suggested, my large squares are 4-1/2 inches but the white and yellow squares used to make the triangles are 2 inches instead. I made them the suggested size at first and then thought they needed to be larger. I got so tired of making that block and trying to match those triangle seams, that eventually I just set it aside. When I decided to revive it for 2019, I thought it needed a fresh name too so renamed it Snowball Blossom. Maybe I'll finish it this year before I get tired of this name too.

 The Pond Lily was and is a struggle. Seems the hand-drawn pattern printed in the Denver Post isn't drawn quite right and I'm having a do-over today. I've only completed one corner of one block. And it's not really red, more of a hot pink because I couldn't find any red batik that suited me.

Other things have been going on this week and I haven't gotten much sewing done, but I hope to finish the other three corners of the pond lily today.

Linking to:
Scraphappy Saturday at soscrappy