Ingredients:
- 1 charm pack (you need 40 5"x5" squares - 2 squares of each print)
- 0.5 yard of solid white fabric for the background
- 0.25 yard of a coordinating print for the border
- 0.5 yard of fabric for binding
- 1 yard for the backing (it will have to be pieced) or if you want it whole then use 1.5 yards.
- Select 2 coordinating prints to make each snowball block, make sure one is dark and one is light to create enough contrast, and that you have 2 charm squares of each print.
- Halve each charm square (5"x5") diagonally - thus you will obtain 4 half square triangle blocks from each two same print charm square blocks.
- Make the pinwheel blocks as follows:
- Cut 40 3"x3" square blocks from the white background fabric for the snowball corners.
- Make snowball blocks from each square pinwheel block as follows:
- Cut 6 x 1.5" strips from your background fabric across the width of the fabric
- Cut the 1.5" strips into 15 x 9" segments and 6 x 21.5" segments
- Assemble pairs of snowball blocks by joining them to a 9" x 1.5" strip segment, and then also add a 9" strip segment to the exposed parallel edges. (See finished runner above).
- Then join the pairs of snowball blocks to each other with the 21.5"x1.5" strip segments, also add a 21.5"x1.5" segment to the top and bottom of the snowballs on the edges.
- Cut 3 x 2.5" border strips from the coordinating print across the width of the fabric.
- Cut one of the 2.5" strips into 2 x 21.5" segments and use the remaining fabric to lengthen the other segments so that you will obtain 2 x 48.5"x2.5" strips for the borders on the long sides.
- Attach the short (21.5"x2.5") border strips to the centre panel first, and then the long (48.5"x2.5") border strips to the length.
- You will need about half a yard of fabric for the binding and at least 1 yard for the backing.
- The amount of batting will depend on the batting width.
- Finished size of the runner should be about 25" x 48".
