Scrap Quilt # 108 – Scrap Snowman Quilt

Gifting me fabric may kill me sometime.  I have this huge urge to make something out of the scraps and blocks people give me. I even lose sleep thinking about how I am going to use their gifts up. I was given a stack of weird, dark fabric, three blocks sewed together in strips.  I just grabbed them up one day and laid them out on the table and moved them around until  had 9-patches that each were different. They were dark and not pretty by themselves. I got some brighter blue fabric that looked really good with the ugly dark blocks and cut the all the same size. After i laid them out straight they didn’t do anything for me.  ut the on point and they began to sing. They began to sing “Frosty the Snowman.” So, there it was a snowman quilt in the making.  I had just finished the red and green fused flower quilt so why not do a fused snowman quilt. I drew off 9 snowmen and snowwomen each doing something different. They were a skier, kite flyer, weghtlifter, ballerina, bird feeder, juggler, hunter, clown, and skater. When I started picking fabrics I chose some of the same dark fabrics for the hats, scarves, and gloves. They blended into the background  stopped and rethunk it. Brights and lights with lots of white trees. I got everything drawn and took it all to AWOL  to cut all my fused pieces I did that there, but didn’t finish the machine embroidery I finished it at home last Wednesday night late I got u early to put the rows together and zipped right through it. Got it all done and I had sewed the middle row that was on an angle upside down.  I had to take it to my Group Group for show and tell screwed up. My brother said that’s what I get for not getting enough rest. I like this quilt to. I think it worked out great for having such a dull start. Oh, I have taken it apart. I will finish putting it back tonight.