![Block 35, Gibby, in progress](https://photos.smugmug.com/Fun-Stuff/Challenges/2018-2019-Moda-Blockheads-2/i-dVmRHrG/0/c6ab7b3b/M/IMG_3019-M.jpg)
Moda Blockheads II Block 35, Gibby, was so much fun! I decided to change up the suggested color scheme yet again and try to include as many of my snowflake scraps as I could in one block. I also decided this would be a great block to make into a gradient.
![Block 35, Gibby](https://photos.smugmug.com/Fun-Stuff/Challenges/2018-2019-Moda-Blockheads-2/i-2KrRcQj/0/3c619a08/M/IMG_3212-M.jpg)
Block 36, Rolling Flake, I mean, Rolling Stone, was going to have a nice crocheted white snowflake in the center until I began slicing up the pieces. I often look at the black and white block map for inspiration, and it suddenly occurred to me I could put four tiny white snowflakes in each of the corner blocks.
![Block 36, Rolling Stone](https://photos.smugmug.com/Fun-Stuff/Challenges/2018-2019-Moda-Blockheads-2/i-K8dQfvL/0/fe03573b/M/IMG_3249-M.jpg)
Except that I'm running out of design ideas for tiny snowflakes. So I thought perhaps I should incorporate the tree skirt panel leftovers once again.
![tree panel scraps](https://photos.smugmug.com/Fun-Stuff/Challenges/2018-2019-Moda-Blockheads-2/i-nbZwPRR/0/6afd5a0a/M/IMG_1124-M.jpg)
The tree panel snowflake scraps are VERY scrappy and pretty darned small. Some of the flakes I picked for Block 36 were not quite big enough or even straight enough. But I knew I'd be lopping off each corner, so I decided to use pieces that probably wouldn't have been included in this quilt any other way.
![scrappy tree skirt blocks](https://photos.smugmug.com/Fun-Stuff/Challenges/2018-2019-Moda-Blockheads-2/i-C9KqbfN/0/94c9086d/M/IMG_3248-M.jpg)
Once the corner blocks were done, I just had to play around with the layout until I found something I liked.
![Mission Accomplished!](https://photos.smugmug.com/Fun-Stuff/Challenges/2018-2019-Moda-Blockheads-2/i-F4BHWZB/0/40f40cca/M/IMG_3250-M.jpg)
The final arrangement turned out really cute, in my opinion. And I didn't have to applique any snowflakes!
![Block 36, Rolling Stone](https://photos.smugmug.com/Fun-Stuff/Challenges/2018-2019-Moda-Blockheads-2/i-LhLJJmQ/0/618b18e0/M/IMG_3251-M.jpg)
Block 38, Anchor Point, was an adventure. I needed 12 2.5-inch strips 4.5 inches long. I didn't have enough fabric in the first three colors I picked. I finally settled on this medium blue snowflake fabric, and I was sweating beads by the time I got to the final strip. That short little piece at the top of the photo below is all I have left! But I made it!
![close call](https://photos.smugmug.com/Fun-Stuff/Challenges/2018-2019-Moda-Blockheads-2/i-pjVHKtH/0/0463598f/M/IMG_3273-M.jpg)
The dark blue batik bled a bit into the white while I was pressing. I guess I haven't used that particular fabric next to such a light fabric before.
And then after I finished with the dark blue, I realized two pieces are inside out. I've done that intentionally to mute a color in the past, but it was a complete accident this time, and I wasn't about to frog the block when I noticed. You have to look really close to see the booboo, and I think that's the Quilter's Rule. If you can't see it at three feet away, it's design, not error.
In spite of the antics, this is a pretty awesome block. It's another block I can see using to make an entire quilt. When I commented to Lizard that it looks like a snowflake inside a star inside a star inside a star, he said it looks like a temple block. He's visited a few temple open houses with me, and he said the motif reminds him of some of the themes he's seen in temple architecture. I think that makes this block even more special to me.
![Block 38, Anchor Point](https://photos.smugmug.com/Fun-Stuff/Challenges/2018-2019-Moda-Blockheads-2/i-HCwmMWp/0/ba7c9306/M/IMG_3274-M.jpg)
Posting a photo of all my blocks so far in a potential layout resulted in the most comments I've ever had on any post I've ever done.
![Wowza!!!](https://photos.smugmug.com/Recent-Shots/2019-UnNikon/i-ScFxggm/0/edac3b1d/L/IMG_3244-L.jpg)
I'm also a "visual storyteller" and "conversation starter" now. Wow!
![Visual Storyteller](https://photos.smugmug.com/Recent-Shots/2019-UnNikon/i-Dv8LTxL/0/85a26295/M/VisualStoryteller-M.jpg)
One of the questions I frequently get is what line of fabric am I using. Well, it's about 22 years of collecting blue snowflake fabrics.
![a third of the collection eight years ago](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-ft6Lhdp/2/5413deb6/M/DSC5912-M.jpg)
![20 years of collecting](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-xhftXd2/0/bf1394bb/M/DSCN3452-M.jpg)
![selvedge heaven](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-WtFJ55G/0/6bd5b27e/M/DLA116534-M.jpg)
I thought it might be fun to share some of the projects I've made with blue snowflake fabrics I've collected over the years. I don't have pictures of everything I've made because 22 years ago, I didn't know I'd one day wish I had pictures of everything I've ever made. I'm not sure I was taking pictures of everything I made 15 years ago... Ten years ago, maybe!
![Moose Junction](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-CfPX4zL/1/9f2f490e/M/DLA71818-M.jpg)
McKenna Ryan's "Moose Junction" is one of the first projects into which I incorporated several different blue snowflake fabrics.
![polar babies](https://photos.smugmug.com/Recent-Shots/2019-UnNikon/i-HQ9NFfQ/0/2f807e68/M/IMG_3200-M.jpg)
Some of the fabrics I used for my first wall hanging (which still hangs above my bed to this day) were leftovers from one of the first panel projects I ever made... polar bear pillows and quillows for my adopted kiddos for their first Christmas together with me. Below is a segment of the coordinating curtains I made for their bedrooms back then (a different fabric than the quillows, but you get the idea).
![from long ago](https://photos.smugmug.com/Recent-Shots/2019-UnNikon/i-4cC5NMP/0/bd59ed8f/M/IMG_3201-M.jpg)
The pillows and quillows are long gone, but I still today have a few small scraps from our Snow and Klondike days!
In the annals of undocumented snowflake stitching (that I can remember) are at least two aprons, about four pinafores, some doll dresses and doll quilts, a big wallful of lap quilts, even more quillows, a ton of pillows and pin cushions, a twirly skirt, numerous scrunchies, at least two crochet bags different than the one shown below, a dinosaur and a pony. Man, I should make another snowflake pony, but with a single horn on its head!!!
![Snowflake Heartburn](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-Z4Zr8Cv/1/5d935a18/M/DLA72887-M.jpg)
Snowflake Heartburn is the granddaddy of all my WIPs. I don't know that it will ever get done. Once I began collecting blue snowflake fabrics, I thought it would be cool to include at least one block of every fabric in this quilt. When I first began, I didn't have enough varieties of fabric to make all the blocks different, so there were five or six blocks of each. Last time I pulled the project out, I replaced all the duplicates, and if this quilt ever does get finished, each snowflake fabric block will be unique.
![Charmed by Snowflakes](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-vvDfCTB/0/8d1b45a5/M/IMG_2635-M.jpg)
Charmed by Snowflakes probably is my favorite finished blue snowflake quilt so far. I think Blockheads will jump ahead of it by miles!
![ticker tape](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-HpWNVfK/0/2338ba0f/M/IMG_3073-M.jpg)
I've used some scraps in ticker tape quilts.
![ticker tape](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-xPvBTvM/0/55af6272/M/IMG_3101-M.jpg)
There are other quilts still waiting to be finished.
![Snowflake Strip Bar](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-gx94KSp/0/b7c65f19/M/DLA109555-M.jpg)
Sometimes I use a blue snowflake fabric I don't like as much for the backing and/or binding of a quilt.
![blue, blue, my snow is blue](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-N9cLP4Z/0/3c6d2f1a/M/IMG_0740-M.jpg)
![Arctic Skies](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-F3vX9W4/0/fa1b1a44/M/DSCN9831a-M.jpg)
Some snowflake strip leftovers got fashioned into a new winter crochet bag.
![Winter Crochet Bag](https://photos.smugmug.com/Memories/2015-UnNikon/i-zz3DDmh/0/e203f578/M/CA_06261522050661-M.jpg)
There also are a host of panels and background fabrics that have yet to be made into quilts and/or other projects.
![for a quilt that didn't get made](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-ZbmHwTN/1/0910395b/M/CA_01191407190816-M.jpg)
![shibori snowflakes](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-znw5n88/0/12d26a24/M/IMG_3203-M.jpg)
![The Legendary Snowflake Tree Skirt](https://photos.smugmug.com/Memories/Camera-Awesome-Archive/i-BJKxgLs/1/8d55e00c/M/CA_01151708324698-M.jpg)
As well as fabrics still waiting to be made into clothes.
![for a dress one day](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches-sewing/i-4Ccd3Zb/0/10546c31/M/IMG_3202-M.jpg)
Some blue snowflake fabric did make it into my wardrobe.
![a favorite blouse from decades ago](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches-sewing/i-bFn7F6M/0/63014166/M/IMG_3204-M.jpg)
![my blue snowflake skirt](https://photos.smugmug.com/Fun-Stuff/Challenges/Starfleet-Fiber-Arts-Corps/i-kMzMD4W/0/e1759fd0/M/DLA86638-M.jpg)
I even made my own turquoise snowflake batik, which I incorporated into a jumper.
![homemade snowflake batik](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches-sewing/i-QfsRVHw/1/657c81d8/M/DLA94832-M.jpg)
![hand-dyed coordinates](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches-sewing/i-jRMq7MR/1/3ff679e4/M/DLA94828-M.jpg)
I've also made blue snowflake fabric of my own via Spoonflower.
![Blue Christmas](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches/i-B3Z74Bn/0/2f851422/M/DLA1170468-M.jpg)
![my snowflakes on blue](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/In-stitches-sewing/i-KSQ9sS5/0/22bd3120/M/DSCN4048-M.jpg)
![real snowflake blues](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/My-Spoonflower-Designs/i-KZ6sxH5/0/b13d5229/M/IMG_2007-M.jpg)
Scraps from my Spoonflower fabrics are making their way into a few of the Blockhead blocks. I'm thinking about incorporating one of my Spoonflower snowflake fabrics into a block of its own. I'm still determined to make my quilt different from the other potential 31,000 quilts being made during this challenge!
![What a great-looking block this would make!](https://photos.smugmug.com/Quilts-Plus/My-Spoonflower-Designs/i-zxLBCqz/3/2f689d65/M/snowflakes01a-M.jpg)
Linking up with Busy Hands Quilts and Confessions of a Fabric Addict.
You? Run out of ideas? Bah, you're embellishing a there haha being a conversation starter we can sure see to at your sea.
ReplyDeleteTiny snowflake ideas, Pat. There is a gigantic difference!!! There are only so many ways you can loop six stitches in a tiny circle! Other ideas are stuffed inside a volcano, and one day, I might explode!
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