Last Christmas I had decided to make Christmas ornaments and have a handmade Christmas tree for this year. I've been diligently working on crocheting snowflakes and have made about 20. So it's time to start working on the quilt blocks.
I've been really struggling to find traditional quilt block patterns small enough to be ornaments. There are quite a few ornament patterns but I haven't found any for traditional quilt blocks. I also don't want these to look cheesy. It's amazing the amount of time you can spend on the Internet looking for these things. And if you're like me, I'll start out googling "quilt block ornaments" and end up looking at kayaks.... It's almost like a Googling evolution. I'm sure there will be a government study on it....
Anyways. I'm bombing with finding patterns for quilt block ornaments. So I pulled a book off my shelf which has some traditional blocks in it to see if there was a way that I could develop my own patterns. I'm not a traditional quilter so I think I own only one book with traditional patterns. I thought that I could maybe I could cut down the size by doing some math. I'm staring at some of these pictures and it hits me that the picture of the block is close to the size that I want the ornament to be... And I could easily copy the page and use it as a paper pieced pattern. Woo Hoo!! Fortunately we have a copier at home (you can find them really cheap at used office supply companies or EBay) and I played with enlarging some of the pictures until I had just the size I wanted.
I really love that moment when something perceived as a problem is suddenly solved and an easy solution is found.
The first pattern I'll try is Ohio Star. Wish me luck!
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