Flowering Snowballs

Had a cruddy day at work today, but came home to some Pineapple blocks on the wall and that made me smile. They weren’t new ones, but I really had a good look at them and was reminded how much I like dots!

In between working like a complete dog on the weekend clearing out my aunt’s craft room, I sewed a tiny bit on some Flowering Snowball (Cross Blocks). I did most of the sewing on the plane, but some in the morning over my coffee. I decided just to do corners, except for one block, because I was running out of the colored pieces and had mostly greens and pinks left. It is a scrap quilt, but I don’t want to have too many greens and pinks. It’ll be a balanced scrap quilt. 😉

When I got home I pressed all of the pieces and, on a whim, counted the finished blocks. I have a total of 22 finished Cross Blocks thus far. WOW! How did I get so many? Just plugging along, I guess.

My next task for this project is to cut blue, purple, orange and yellow corner pieces to round out my choices a bit.

I also talked to AJA this weekend. She lives near where I was working, but we couldn’t fit it in to get together. I didn’t e-mail her in time at the beginning of the week to remind her and she forgot to write it on her calendar. Not sure when I will be back, but we had a good chat. We discussed doing the next color Bullseye quilts. Purple, I think. She put me in charge. I will have to talk to JulieZS and see what we can work out.

Author: Jaye

Quiltmaker who enjoys writing and frozen chocolate covered bananas.

4 thoughts on “Flowering Snowballs”

  2. Limit to purple and yellow? Purple with mostly yellow? Purple and standout yellow? I’ll have to find the measurements and then we’ll have to negotiate for color, etc. Thanks for reading!

  3. Okay, more questions. You guys do swap bullseyes in different colors? Can I see more of these? More inspiration. I’ve always wanted to do a bullseye quilt but never gotten around to it. I’ll add it to my mental list of getting a round tuit. And you’re cleaning your aunt’s room because…? On a plane? Did I get too little sleep? Too much sleep? Why do I feel like I’ve walked into the middle of several stories? I’m such a high need reader – hehe.

  4. In the past, we have decided on a background color and a general color scheme and then do the bullseyes in a kind of round robin manner. For example, I cut backgrounds and send them to the next person. She puts the first circle on and sends them to the 2d person. She put the 2nd circle on and sends mine back to me, then I put the last circle on and cut them into 4 pieces. After I send a stack to each person and I receive a stack from each person, I sew them together.

    You can see mine at: http://www.artquiltmaker.com/sub_pages/seeingRed.htm or http://www.artquiltmaker.com/sub_pages/feelinBlue.htm. You can see Aja’s at http://www.quilter.biz/ under Featured Works. JZS’s should be at: http://jzs.homestead.com/

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