bertadel

Hi,
I'm thinking about making a tennessee waltz quilt form my 3rd quilt. A few question.
Is it a difficult pattern? It looked easy on u-tube Eleanor Burns.
Where can I find pictures of this design? for color ideas. I saw a couple here and loved them.
Is this quilt called something else too?

hobo2000

If I am not mistaken it is the "Fifty-four forty or fight" block alternating with a "snowbaLL block". Gives a curved look to the quilt. You can download both off of "Quilters Cache"

bertadel

thanks, I just looked it up. I like the "Quilters Cache" there is lots of good info there.

JanieW

i just did a google image and came up with this link. What a neat quilt!

http://www.google.ca/images?q=tennes...ls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi

mic-pa

I did that quilt a couple of times. I bought Eleanor burns book because I also got the ruler to go with it. Makes it easier to cut the block. Not hard to do, but time consuming. My first one was King size.

sewjoyce

Neat pattern -- will have to put it on my "someday" list :D

Lori S

I have made one . I found it to be one of the easier quilts for a few reasons. It is still one of my favorite quilt I have made.
1. There are two different blocks, so its not like making 60 or more of the same thing.
2. The 'snow ball ' block goes very quickly.
3 The snow ball block has a fairly good size area for some nice quilting designs.
4. It can be made scrapy, just paying attention to light and dark for placement.
5. I used a very large scale print for the border ( 12 inches wide) and then selected the fabrics of the blocks. this is a bit reverse of how most select the fabrics, but it worked out great.
Mine was inspired By Eleanor Burns. She makes everything look simple. Her patterns are usually fairly easy ( once you can sew a 1/4 inch seam). I always recomend her books and patterns to new quilters.

EasyPeezy

This one is also on my bucket list. :D

http://www.hgtv.com/crafting/tenness...ilt/index.html

For pictures, go to google image...you'll find all kinds.

http://images.google.com/

JenniePenny

This is another example posted by a member today. The snowball block is a large scale print.

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-50681-1.htm

newestnana

Ohhhhhh no. I love it. Another one on my to-do list.