Snowflake- Auction Quilt

My 'Snowflake' quilt is completely finished and ready for the live auction for my children's school.

I acquired this small UFO from my guild's scrap auction and thought it complemented the quilt perfectly.  I quilted it up and made it into a pillow.

Ruler work in progress. It was a lot of advancing the quilt back and forth. I was actually wanting to do the whole white snowflake in ruler-work, but I got two rounds into it, got impatient, and decided that was enough and filled the rest in with pebbles and called it done. :)

I loved my 'Happy Christmas' quilt for last year's auction, but went with Snowflake so it was more of an all winter use quilt, and not just the Christmas season.

I used a blue variegated thread for the blue background.

I used a lot of blues from my stash, but did have to buy a few more for variety and to keep it in the right medium to dark blue shades and getting too turquoise. I'm not sad about having to buy pretty blue fabric at all.

I used a navy flannel for the back to make it extra cozy and warm.

I loved making this pattern! I would make it again in a heartbeat, perhaps in a different color, or combination of colors like the pattern shows. All scrappy of course!

And here is the big moment at the auction! There were lots of good comments on it, people really liked the pattern. It ended up going for $350 to the same person who bought my 'Happy Christmas' quilt last year. Not too shabby.  I have already pulled fabric for next year's auction quilt- a fall color scheme this time!