Snowball Block Tutorial

I’m doing a bunch of snowball blocks for a new quilt top and I thought I’d share my method. Snowball blocks normally have smaller corner triangles but I wanted more color in my quilt so mine are bigger.

This is a great block to learn paper piecing on and use up scraps at the same time! You can use it to make a mini quilt with several blocks or just use it as I did for a small pincushion.

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Bargello Quilt Along – Tutorial – Quilting and Finishing

Part 3 – Quilting and Finishing. Miss the earlier parts? Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here!
Hopefully you’ve got either a placemat or a tablerunner top pieced together if you followed the steps in parts 1 and 2.

Part 1 – Fabric Selection, cutting and Strip Piecing. Welcome fellow quilt alongers! This will be part 1 of a 3 part quilt along to make some simple placemats and an optional table runner using the bargello technique.

Part 2 – Cutting your tubes, using your seam ripper and sewing rows back together. Miss Part 1? You can find it here! By now you should have all your fabric cut and sewn together into tubes. Depending on which pattern you are doing you should either have four tubes sewn together for the placemats or two tubes for the table runner. If you are doing both you will have six tubes total!

I hope the instructions make sense, and that you enjoy making this blanket as much as I did. My advice...start small. Try a doll quilt or baby quilt before you get yourself in too deep. I would also say that as you increase the size of the quilt, increase the size of your squares.