Project: Purple Snowballs

Shades of Purple, Simple Pattern

Purple Snowballs

I'm very close to working through all the polka dot fabric I've accumulated over time. In October I created this large crib quilt, revisiting the simple block pattern called Snowballs. 

Instead of using the block to fill the whole top, open spaces have been incorporated so the pattern does not extent to all the edges. Originally I was interested in how the pattern would look using only a white/purple combination for all the blocks. My thought was to have them progress from light at the top to dark at the bottom. But it evolved. As I was working with the fabrics, appealing parings of the various purples presented themselves and I decided to introduce solid blocks of color to contrast with the white/purple theme. It is quilted in a rambling, loopy design which gives the quilt a cohesive texture and pulls it all together. 

You may recall seeing this block back in June when I challenged myself to work in shades of brown. This was shared in a series of posts that included a description of the block construction. It is a simple pattern, based on a square, but it looks more complicated to sew because of the small triangles at each corner. From a distance, the eye reads these squares as circles, hence the "Snowball" name. I think it would look great in all kinds of color combinations.

(Check out this link for another example of this pattern in use: https://creativelifesampler.blogspot.com/2020/06/two-sides-united-4-of-4-last-week-i.html )