Sweet!
(Sweet treats themed Happy Bocks)
56 x 72
It's a flimsy!
All blocks have candy coated 4.5 inch centers and a wild assortment of 2.5 inch sides.
Happy Blocks are just framed squares. Well, the center square should actually be happy looking in order to morph from a plain old framed square to a Happy Block.
I first heard of Happy Blocks back in the day when postage was cheaper, life was stressful and I had no stash. Back then I joined up with several online swap groups and one of the first things we swapped in one group were Happy Blocks in a variety of themes over the years - Bright and Wild, Patriotic, Batiks and so on. Those blocks had 4 inch centers and 2.5 inch sides and ended up at an odd 7.5 inch finished size. I liked those kinds of swaps because I could buy just a couple of fabrics, make a lot of blocks that were all the same, swap them and get back a variety of blocks. I loved getting a package full of blocks so I could go through them and look at all the different fabrics in the blocks.
Another group kind of did a Happy Block round robin. We were in groups of 4 to 6 people. We would send six 4.5 inch centers of our choice to each member in our group. In return we would receive 4.5 inch centers from each member. So, we could keep one of the six centers from each member but then we were to add 2.5 inch frames to the rest of the blocks and send them back to original senders. Half of the blocks in this quilt were from that type of swap. I made one candy centered Happy Block quilt in the past and gave it as a gift to someone sweet but some of these blocks and other incomplete "sets" have been in my Happy Place for too long so as I blogged in December - time to make a few Happy Block quilts.
I don't make many quilts more than once but Happy Blocks are an exception. They are quick and easy and most of the kids in my grandkids' generation have some form of Happy Block/I Spy type of quilt.
I don't have a backing for it yet so who knows when it will get quilted but at least I've moved one more UFO forward.
I haven't emptied out the Happy Place yet so stay tuned for more Happy Block quilt tops coming soon!
7 comments:
I love your Happy Blocks quilts. Always bright, colourful, interesting, so much to look at and enjoy. Now you’ve prodded me into making some Happy Blocks of my own. Off upstairs to make a start.
Happy Blocks is a great idea. I have to try and collect more fabric pieces for one. They are certainly cheery and make you want to smile.
very pretty quilt...oh those swaps were so fun but alas the postage has finished them for me...what a grinch!
I was in an online happy block swap years ago too! I recently found some of those and made a couple charity baby quilts. Your quilts are cheerful - definitely happy!
Your Happy Blocks sure do brighten up all the snow!
Good quilt top finish!
"Happy" really sums it up! Such a sweet happy quilt!
Fun! I think I'm going to cut a bunch of pieces and use these as leader/ender projects.
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