There are better ways to make the diamond center for the snowball squares, but they involve measuring things with eighths of inches which I hate! You can also paper piece them which would give you great accuracy. I chose to use the snowball corner method, which is wasteful, but when making sampler blocks with scraps, I worry less about that than ease of assembly.
Use the cutting chart provided to get these pieces. Go ahead and sew your two strip sets together and set them aside for now while you spend serious time snowballing corners! Start by drawing a diagonal line through the center of each of your 16 small background squares. I know this is tedious, but we are only making a few blocks, not an entire quilt.
Sew a small background square to one corner of each blue square. Sew along the drawn line.
Repeat for the opposite corner of the blue block ( You could work your way around the corners in order, but then you would need to press after each corner. By working on opposing corners you can get away with fewer trips to the ironing board. After two triangles have been attaches, make sure your corners are straight and trip away the extra fabric behind your flip and sew triangles.
Now repeat this procedure until all four corners of each blue block have these flip and sew corners. Press carefully before trimming away the excess bonus triangles. Now that you have four corner diamonds, go ahead and sub cut our strip set into squares that are the same size as your blue squares. (I forgot to take a photo of this step, but we have done it a time or two my now.)
Here ae your nine subunits.
Arrange them with the diamonds in the corners, the blue rectangles facing the outside edges, and the extra background square in the center.
Sew now as a nine patch and press away from the corner diamonds to get your points as sharp as possible.
1 comment:
I have looked at this block before, but it looked like tooooo much trouble. You've managed to make it look simple. Thank you!
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