Hi friends,
Today I am sharing a new Snowflake quilt featuring Deco Frost by Giucy Giuce for Andover Fabrics. The Snowflake quilt is my most popular modern winter themed quilt pattern and is such a fun project to make! There are so many ways of creating this quilt, for this one I decided to do the scrappy version using fat quarters. Scroll down and you can read about the fun addition I added to this quilt - Chenille-it!
If you love this quilt - you can find it for sale in my shop here!
The Snowflake Quilt is a modern quilt pattern that has instructions for a large throw size and two different instructions for assembling the quilt top. You can follow along with the larger block assembly style on the one color or four color version or keep it simple with the square and HST scrappy version.
Links in the pattern include:
- Coloring sheet to help you plan out your design
- Cutting diagrams to help visualize the best way of cutting your fabrics
- Printable cutting tags to help organize your fabric cuts on the larger block one color and four color versions
Skill level is beginner and the scrappy version is fat quarter friendly!
You can also search for Snowlake quilt on the blog to see some other versions including the very popular buffalo check version.
You can check out the video I made on how I like to web-piece the blocks on the Snowflake quilt here.
Fabric Information:
Century Prints - Deco Frost by Giucy Giuce for Andover Fabrics is a new line that is currently available in shops. I saw this a few weeks ago in a newsletter that went out and immediately had to grab up a fat quarter bundle in the entire line!
This collection is actually digitally printed so it feels slightly different than other Andover fabrics printed lines. Very smooth and soft and washed up beautifully! I had no issues with cutting or piecing, it didn't fray more than other lines by Andover - so other than feeling slightly different I would never even know it was a digital print!
The scrappy version of the pattern calls for 13 fat quarters - I pulled the 3 white prints to save them for the binding and used the remaining 17 for a much scrappier version of the quilt. I decided not to include the white prints because I was using a white solid for my snowflake and didn't want any of the white prints to throw off the shape of the Snowflake by accident.
Snowflake Scrappy Background (17 fat quarters were used):
Snowflake: Solid white cotton
Binding: 3 fat quarters were used, I cut the fat quarters into strips measuring 2.5" x 21" and sewed together alternating prints for a scrappy binding.
Backing: I used. a medium gray flannel fabric to make the quilt extra cozy for winter.
Chenille-it Information:
I have been wanting to try Chenille-it ever since I saw it on a quilt on my Instagram feed. Chenille-it is a blooming bias that you can use on raw edge applique, in between seams, or any other area you would like to add some extra texture to your project. I thought it would be fun to add to the outline of a Snowflake quilt and ordered a package of the white Chenille-it in the 3/8" size / 25 yards length.
It comes wound nicely in a large spool - it looks like a large roll of tape! I watched a couple of videos on their instagram page to see how I should apply it and went to work! I decided to stitch it just along the outside line of the Snowflake design, stitching in the ditch between the background fabric and the white snowflake fabric.
When I came to a corner, I just folded it and kept stitching. If you can stitch a straight line - its that easy, and honestly it was quite fun to add to the quilt top too! When I got to the end I realized I only used about half and was having so much fun I decided to add details to the inside of the snowflake. You can see here the path I took, Since I was starting in the middle of the snowflake I just back stitched at the beginning and end of the piece I cut, adding little pieces here and there, even an asterisks shape in the square sections of the snowflake.
You can check out a video I made of sewing the Chenille-it to the quilt here.
I got to the end, and after worrying just a bit, finished my plan with just a few inches left! So if you decide to do the same layout - follow my lines and you should have JUST enough for your project.
I was sharing progress on Instagram last week while working and some of you messaged me to tell me how wonderful your quilts using Chenille-it turned out! Some of you even recommended going back over your first layer and adding a second for a super fluffy edge!
I chose to add the Chenille-it to my quilt top, because I knew I would be stitching it down along the shape of the snowflake and didn't want that to show up as quilting lines later when I quilted it. I feel its personally the way to go - it's much easier to maneuver just the top in your machine and then I was just able to quilt however I liked right over the top and it just blended right in with the product.
Quilting Information:
For my actual quilting I used a white thread, and stitched an X along each square - going from corner to corner. When I use a flannel or minky type backing this quilting always works out well for the thickness of the quilt.
Finished Quilt:
Here are some additional images of the finished quilt. I don't normally wash quilts before sharing on the blog or putting in the shop - but I just HAD to see how the Chenille-it bloomed and I will definitely be adding this to another quilt soon. So these after pictures show the quilt after washing. I did hear a tip from Chenille-it to throw a towel in the dryer when drying to have something extra to fluff it up. It will fluff up a little more after the next wash too!
Thank you so much for checking out the blog today! If you would like to make a Snowflake quilt of your own it's available as a PDF here or a Printed Pattern here.
If you LOVE this quilt and want to bring her home, the link for my shop listing is here.
Happy Sewing!
Nicole
