Sunbonnet Sue - Block 1

I have a new granddaughter due to arrive June 30, and she has been named Lorelai. I am making her a quilt with some Sunbonnet Sue type blocks.  I finished the first block today, there will be a total of 5 of them.  I found the blocks in a Better Homes and Gardens book titled 501 Quilt Blocks.  All the blocks are patterned at 4" finished.  That was too small, so I scanned the block into my computer, put the image into a WORD document and then enlarged the image to 9" .  The block will be a 12" block.

Block 1 - Sunbonnet with Flower

 

 

Well what do you know - it loaded right. 

 

The quilt will be made like a large nine patch with 5 SBS blocks and the four plain blocks. 

 

 I have some blocks that my mother quilted on various solid pastel fabrics.  She did several quilts where she quilted the blocks before she sewed them together and did a beautiful job of that.  I think it would be so neat if I could used four of her blocks in this quilt, then Lorelai would have a quilt that both her grandmother and greatgrandmother made.  Just not so sure I can do as good a job on the quilt-as-you-go method my momma used, and I would just hate to mess up her beautifully quilted blocks. 

 

I have a few weeks to decide, guess if it looked too bad, I could take them apart.  But then my blocks would be quilted and I would have to put them together some way.

 

 

Teresa