Snow with Sprinkles

My young pine trees garnished with snow.

Two inches fell in about two hours. A very fast snowfall.

And tiny sprinkles with borders. Here's the recipe:

1. Use 1-1/4" strips to make the 9-patches. Trim squares evenly.

2. Cut 1" strips of teal fabric to frame each block. Trim evenly.

3. Use measurement of 9 patch blocks to cut 4 alternate block B of pink (about 3-3/4").

4. Cut two 6-inch squares from pink. Cut diagonally first vertically, then horizontally for a total of 8 set in triangles.

5. Cut two 3-1/2" squares. Cut them in half on the diagonal for corner triangles.

6. Cut inner pink border from 1-3/4" strips.

7. Cut outer teal border from 2-1/2" strips.

Of course, these are the basics. Measurements will vary depending upon your lighting, your sewing machine, your ruler, and how you trim your fabric. Everyone sews in a different environment. However, the side set-in triangles and corner triangles have allowance built in so those measurements should work fine for you. If not, just e-mail me.

Until then, keep stitchin' . . .

Itzzzz heeeere . . .

for a few minutes, there were a few flakes and then wham!


I don't think I've seen snow come down this fast since I lived in Pennsylvania. I'm very excited, as I want to try snow dying if I can locate my "somewhere-its-packed", ready-to-dye fabric.

. . . and here is "Tiny Sprinkles" without borders.

If you're also experiencing extreme weather, please make sure your animals have a warm shelter with plenty of fresh water.

Until then, keep stitchin' . . .

Tiny sprinkles

Ooops, I cut the strips at 1-1/4", so the squares ended up being about 3/4" or less. I love the hand-dyed fabric swirls of color.

Until then, keep stitchin' . . .

One of the nice things . . . .

About dye-painting fabric, is you can keep painting over it. (This was originally 2 colors.) Admittedly, it's not very appealing at the moment, but soon it will be tiny 1" squares, hidden in 9-patches. Like sprinkles on a cupcake, just lil' bursts of color hidden throughout.

(Notice we saw the sun here today. Thank goodness!)

Until then, keep stitchin' . . .

Work in progress . . .

. . . and obviously, it needs a lot more work. LOL

(strip size 1-1/2")

Until then, keep stitchin' . . .