The beach ball quilt

It's that time again! Time for the Another Year of Schnibbles Parade!

We could choose anything we wanted for the July project and since I've been wanting to make another Bennington quilt, it was the perfect choice!

 I pulled out those colorful Lucy's Crab Shack charm packs and got to work.

These prints are just amazing!  Bicycles, big colorful flowers, fun dots, numbers, names.......Sweetwater put it all in.  I have to say I love the prints with the names.  Both of my sons' names were included, exactly how we spell them and only a few inches apart.  Love it!!  

You know I'm going to put plenty of that fabric on the back.....and of course I bought a little extra too.  

As I mentioned in a previous post, I did take the liberty to rename this quilt Beach Balls.  It was just hard for me to think about using these bright, beachy fabrics to make snowball blocks, so I'm calling them beach balls.  Our beach ball has been well used this summer.  Actually, we've gone through a few!

Edited to add - Oops!  My bad!  These are bowtie blocks not snowball blocks.  A quilt with snowball blocks would look similar,  but it would have a single piece of fabric in the center of each block that resembles a snowball with triangles added to the corners. Oh well, I think I'm going to stick with the beach ball name since these reminded me, obviously, of snowballs. Please excuse the slang too........I have teenagers. Teenage boys. Slang, smelly socks, and lots and lots of food.  Lots of food.  Enough said.    

By the way, have you seen the giant beach balls they have at Target?  So cool! After we got one blown up, we were wondering if it would even fit through the door so we could get it outside!

  

Here's a few close ups of the quilt so you can get a better look at the fun, beachy prints.

I used the multi-colored dot for the inner border, and I fussy cut some of the colorful flowers for the corner squares to add some more color.......as if there wasn't enough! 

 I was just going for a fun, bright colorful summertime quilt.

Don't forget to view the parade this week by visiting both Sinta and Sherri.  It's sure to be a fun one since there will be such a variety of quilts on display!

I'll be here, waiting on the edge of my seat, to see which of Carrie's designs is on the calendar for August!