New Blue Table Quilt

 

This is my interpretation of the Happy Stripes quilt. I made some strip sets then decided where the snowball triangles should go.

After that I decided to custom make each block, so here is how I decided how to make the blocks.

Then I used a leftover HST to figure out where the white HST would go, and took a picture so I would know how to sew it together.

This has eight rows, and I need nine, and I wasn't thrilled.

I tried rearranging the blocks, but this didn't exactly thrill me either. I needed nine rows and this left a row of what looked like half blocks that looked weird. 

So I put it all back the way it was, and started sewing it all together.

Last month I sewed rows in a quilt the wrong way - TWICE - so I worked out a way to make sure I got the rows in the right place:

I used safety pins attached to the left edge of the quilt. For rows one to five, I attached that number of safety pins to the edge. For rows six through nine I put one safety pin in the bottom half of the block, representing FIVE, and then in the top half the number of safety pins that plus five would add up to the row number. In the photo above you can see rows six and seven.

Hey, whatever works!

The quilt needs a name. it's blue and white. Got any suggestions?