My mind was racing like crazy this morning as I thought about what to do with the tree blocks.
Since they are snowy, they would look great with the 16-inch snowman block that I ordered from Paper Panache. I just need to figure out how to make them fit as a border. Why do I always do this backwards? If I had made the snowman first, then I would have made the tree blocks at whatever size I needed. But, no, that would make too much sense! LOL. Anyway I already made the trees as 7-inch finished blocks, so that is what I need to work with.
So I will need to add a border around the snowman block - 5 inches to get to 21 which is divisible by 7. Since there are two sides, the border needs to be half of 5 inches, or 2.5 inches.
So I am thinking a snowball block would be perfect. Imagine the snowballs being white, not blue as you see here with my amateurish attempt see what it would look like.
I think I would also need to add a .75-inch border around the snowman to make the 2.5-inch snowballs fit..don't even try to follow my mathematical thought line.....I am confused myself! This pic is not to scale - I would need 7 2.5" snowballs across the bottom + one in each corner. 9 snowballs x 2.5 inches = 22.5 inches. Snowman block at 16 inches + .75 inch border + .75 inch border + 2.5 snowball + 2.5 snowball = 22.5 inches! It sounds like it would work.
It would like something like this:
and this part would finish at 35 x 35 inches. It would be a nice medallion center for a king-size quilt. But, oh my, that would be a ton more work. I think I will have to think of something smaller.
Since they are snowy, they would look great with the 16-inch snowman block that I ordered from Paper Panache. I just need to figure out how to make them fit as a border. Why do I always do this backwards? If I had made the snowman first, then I would have made the tree blocks at whatever size I needed. But, no, that would make too much sense! LOL. Anyway I already made the trees as 7-inch finished blocks, so that is what I need to work with.
So I will need to add a border around the snowman block - 5 inches to get to 21 which is divisible by 7. Since there are two sides, the border needs to be half of 5 inches, or 2.5 inches.
So I am thinking a snowball block would be perfect. Imagine the snowballs being white, not blue as you see here with my amateurish attempt see what it would look like.
It would like something like this:
and this part would finish at 35 x 35 inches. It would be a nice medallion center for a king-size quilt. But, oh my, that would be a ton more work. I think I will have to think of something smaller.
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