The new project I started came from this hot-off-the-press American Patchwork and Quilting Magazine. The pattern is called Give It Your Best Dot, for the fun polka dot fabric used in the sample quilt.
I don't really care about all those polka dot fabrics, but I do love the block that is featured in the pattern. No curves are involved in the piecing, but you do end up with a secondary circular design, which as you know, I am fond of.
I had a lovely stack of Civil War inspired red prints, which I thought would be perfect for my scrappy verison of this pattern. My reds will be scrappy, but I am using just one cream off white print for the alternate color in the blocks. I will do a narrower black containment border than shown in the example, and will do a red border. This will be a fun quilt to have on hand during the holidays and will coordinate nicely with a few other red and white quilts you might remember me making.
Red and White Snowball Quilt
Gentle Arts
In Honor of Cherry Baskets
Drop
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I *THOUGHT* those blocks looked vaguely familiar! That quilt certainly caught my eye when I looked through the magazine when it arrived last week. I love the tweaks you’re making … the blocks themselves appealed to me, but I wasn’t a big fan of the border treatment. I can’t wait to see your version!
Thank you for the information on this pattern and am glad you’re enjoying making these blocks!
Do you have a good method for making the side center block units that have been called Peaky and Spike? I’ve always found that block unit daunting.
Your red/cream scrappy Snowball quilt has long been one of my favorites of your many wonderful quilts. The smaller array of red table toppers are also charming.
Red was my mother’s favorite color.
Hugs!
Love this block and will be on the look out now for this magazine!! Thanks for the heads up!! Can’t wait to see your version!!
Love all of your red & white quilts & your “DOTS” quilt is going to be beautiful in civil was fabric
Thanks Nicole for sharing your work. I flipped past that quilt in the magazine thinking too busy for me. I suffer from not being able to visualize a quilt in other fabrics. So annoying! Your project is lovely.
I marked the pattern when my magazine came last week…that red caught my eye. I am so glad to see you using civil war fabric so I am going to be watching carefully because I am going to make this pattern!!! I couldn’t have “lasted” with the pastels, not my cup of tea at all…give me RED any ole day! Keep us up to date on this project, please.
Gloria
love that snowball quilt! ;p
I also was attracted to that pattern! I love what you’ve started, can’t go wrong with red!
Love your version of this quilt! That snowball quilt is one of my favorites too 🙂