Snow Beauty

Before presenting a workshop, I always sew a new version of the project to have it fresh in my mind.  When preparing for the recent class on Maritime Beauty, I decided to give my project a bit more zing. Here's the result, and even though I've named it "Snow Beauty", it really is :)

I used beautiful Hoffman batiks, printed with snowflakes, in black and greys.

 The large snowflakes were fussy cut for the centre, and for the semi-circles on each end.

There was enough solid black around the snowflakes that I could cut plain background pieces to square out the centre sections.

I chose a medium grey Aurifil thread (#2610) for piecing.  When it came time to quilt, Aurifil #4060, which is a very subtle white to medium-dark grey variegated, was a perfect choice to blend with the batiks.

My quilting was free-form ice shards.  The spikes of the New York Beauty block make a perfect halo around the batik snowflakes.

I am really, really pleased with how this turned out.  

The pattern for original Maritime Beauty may be downloaded here.