93 Snowball blocks made from fabric pulled from stash: free
{45 baby, 48 regular}
903 Seams: 25± man hours
723 Sashing Swirls: 7 man hours
192 Corner Curlicues: 6 man hours
1700 yards of quilting thread: $11.43
Batting and backing: $16.30
Total Machine Quilting time: 35± man hours
7 yards of double-fold bias binding: 3 man hours
Making a quilt start to finish: Priceless
Posts about the creation of this quilt:
A Quilt-Along
How One Quilt Became Two
The First Snowball Quilt Finished
Work Begins on the Second Quilt
Update 1
Update 2
Update 3
Back at it After A Long Break
Construction Nearly Completed
Preparing For Machine Quilting
Machine Quilting in Progress
Machine Quilting Almost Finished
Snowball Quilt Tutorial
Your quilt is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo fun and adorable!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt! Very interesting little facts about the quilt, too :)
ReplyDeleteOh, wow. WOW! It's GORGEOUS!!
ReplyDeleteI am blown away by the quilting. All those curlicues! Feathers! Awesome work!
I absolutely love the photo on the chair.
That is perfection!
ReplyDeleteI love that you did all the math! ;)
Way, WAY COOL! I love it and what you did with it. But, I think you and I might be the only ones that count the yards of thread. Lane
ReplyDeleteE, this is amazing. Truly a beautiful quilt! And I am completely floored that you quilted it yourself. AMAZING!
ReplyDeleteCompletely magnificent! It's a work of art and perseverance and patience and gorgeous to boot!
ReplyDeleteI bet you're thrilled . You're keeping this one for yourself arent you?
I'm in awe of your utter brilliance Elizabeth.
Amazing.
ReplyDeleteBEE-YOO-TEE-FULL!!! you can see every ounce of love put into that masterpiece. amazing.
ReplyDeleteIt is beautiful!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! You've chosen such yummy colors. :-) And the scroll work quilting ~ perfect!
ReplyDeleteI'm totally blown away by the fact that you had all those perfectly coordinating fabrics in your stash. LOL It's stunning...and I wanna be able to machine quilt like you! Just love it. Well done, bloggy friend! ☺
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing. Happy Friday! ☺
I've never really broken it down that way before. But it give me something to think about.
ReplyDeleteYour quilt came out awesome! I love the fabrics and the quilting is amazing!
Your quit is absolutely beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteAll those curlicues! What a labor of love. This is such an interesting breakdown. Congratulations on a beautiful finish and thanks for joining in on Finished for Friday!
ReplyDeleteLove your post...how you have broken down the quilt to the stats! That's funny and yes, priceless....the fabrics you chose are so beautiful! Very well done!
ReplyDeleteit is fabulous Elizabeth! congrats on the finish!
ReplyDeleteWhat a finish! Well worth every minute right! I love that you documented the hours and cost, but it is such a labor of love. Your quilt is so beautiful! Congrats on a keepsake!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful and fun quilt :)
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely beautiful and the quilting is amazing!
ReplyDeleteThat quilt is fantastic. The first snowball quilt I saw I thought ugh I do not like that. You have given new life to what I thought was a boring quilt. Thank you for your answer (oh wait still reading that post going to go back and read more maybe you will get a few comments out of me tonight).
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