Snow fun

While it is snowing outside it is warm inside as I finished up this snowball quilt.
This simple snowball block, made in avocado green and white Kona fabric, is simply stunning.  The geometric design reminds me of the mid-century style, which I love.

I quilted most of this quilt in January in straight lines following the octagon shape and left the center three inches unquilted.  The centers ended up puffing out.  After looking at it for a week or two I decided I needed to quilt the centers to hold the centers down.  I quilted a spiral design in the center which did the trick.

This snowball quilt design is simple but stunning.

The spiral stitching in the center of the block holds down the
puffy center perfectly

When I checked my thread to finish the quilting of the spirals I found that there was very little matching thread left.  The closest store that I could purchase this thread is an hour away.  That rat is on my heals again.  I took a chance and trying to conserve my thread I only wound my bobbin half way and began quilting.  I can't believe I made it and with only inches of thread left.

Ha ha Rat!  It was too close for comfort, but I did finish
this quilt with the thread I had left.

While I had down time in January getting my long arm quilter tuned-up I wasted no time and made a matching pillow from the corners cut from the snowball blocks of this quilt.   I love using up all these scraps.
This has been fun.