Quilting and Stuff by Knitnoid

First Finish of 2025

This is my version of the the 2020 Candlelight Snowmen Swap.  We didn’t want to do a Christmas quilt, but rather make a quilt we could keep out in the new year.  We choose to make snowmen with blue and gray being our primary colors.  At the time I had no idea what I was going to do with just 9 blocks.  I guess last year’s program “Got Blocks, Now What?”  kick started my thinking.  The setting fabric is Grunge Basics in Ash.  I found a pretty blue with gold accents (not that you can see them) to use for the flange in my binding.  I pulled the top together between Christmas and New Years Day, getting it quilted New Years Day.

The thread is Glide in Mercury and I used the Edge to Edge design West Wind Winter. The snowflakes were cut with 3 different Accuquilt dies.  I have learned I prefer the Warm & Natural’s Lite Steam-A-Seam 2 vs Pellon’s Lite EZ-Steam II, something I’ll have to remember the next time I’m doing fusible applique.

After the quilt was bound, I put some fusible rhinestones on the snowflakes in 4 different sizes.  I have yet to be able to get a good picture except in close-ups.  This quilt is 63″ x 63″ and is on several of my UFO lists — Brandon Quilters, Mississippi Quilt Association, Quilting Friends, and my personal 2025 Quilt Goals.

 

 

 

 

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