Per a conversation on the AQSG list, I am posting a couple of photos of an old Laura Wheeler block called Snowball Wreath.
Notice the crazy shapes the newspaper printed for piecing (lower right). Could anyone actually make a quilt from those kinds of pieces? I would really love to see a 1930s or 1940s (or whenever this pattern was printed) quilt from this pattern.
This is my attempt. I appliqued the circles on after piecing them.
I issued an informal challenge on a list and Julie made this one.
The challenge required people to draft their own templates and I found that to be quite a challenge, because 1) I only had the information on the newspaper clipping image. I don’t have the actual newspaper; 2) the block is not made from a grid that I could figure out; and 3) the circles did not exactly line up.
It was a fun and challenging puzzle, one in which I am still interested.
From Barbara Brackman’s blog on the Snowball Wreath (Snow ball Wreath): http://barbarabrackman.blogspot.com/2010/01/snow-ball-wreath.html