{"id":13850,"date":"2013-01-01T20:43:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T03:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?page_id=13850"},"modified":"2015-03-03T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T18:58:00","slug":"flowering-snowball","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2012\/flowering-snowball\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowering Snowball"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_27062\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27062\" style=\"width: 317px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSCN0095sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-27062\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSCN0095sm-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flowering Snowball Finished\" width=\"317\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSCN0095sm-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSCN0095sm-795x1024.jpg 795w, https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/DSCN0095sm.jpg 959w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 85vw, 317px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27062\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flowering Snowball Finished<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div id=\"content-sidebartop\" style=\"display: block; float: right; width: 260px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px; padding: 2px;\">\n<p><strong>Materials:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: -20px;\">\n<li>100% cotton fabric<\/li>\n<li>100% cotton thread<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Techniques<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: -20px;\">\n<li>Hand pieced blocks<\/li>\n<li>Machine Pieced<\/li>\n<li>Longarm quilted<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cont-content\">\n<div id=\"content-sidebarbot\" style=\"display: block; float: right; width: 260px; border: 1px solid black; margin: 2px; padding: 2px;\">\n<p><strong>Details:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: -20px;\">\n<li>Year: 2006-2012<\/li>\n<li>Size:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Quilted By:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: -20px;\">\n<li>Colleen Granger<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: left;\">Story<\/h1>\n<p>This quilt was in process for about 6 years. I saw a quilt with this pattern at a museum tour somewhere in the East Bay. I started it in about 2006 to have some hand work to do in the evenings.<\/p>\n<p>The original quilt was predominantly blue and not as scrappy as I would have liked, but provided some excellent inspiration for my imagination. Since I didn\u2019t know what the pattern was called and didn\u2019t really care that much, I called it Cross Blocks. Then the historian in me kicked in and I began researching the history of the block. Eventually I got help identifying the block name and provenance from AQSG members. I found that Barbara Brackman had cataloged it. In EQ7, the notecard lists it as \u201cBarbara Brackman&#8217;s Encyclopedia of Quilt Patterns\u00a0 #3081 &#8211; Aunt Kate 7\/65.\u201d It is from the Classic Pieced, Orange Peel family.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, I started working on works in progress in order to clear out my fabric closet as well as the end of the year WIP report. The Flowering Snowball came to the top of the list and I worked on it steadily during 2012.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of trimming these blocks down to a uniform size because they didn\u2019t have a uniform seam allowance. After finishing all the side\/border blocks, I tried sewing them together as they were and found that they went together quite well.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote up a <a href=\"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/aq-projects-tutorials\/aq-tutorials\/how-to-make-a-flowering-snowball-block\/\" target=\"_blank\">tutorial<\/a> on making these blocks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Materials: 100% cotton fabric 100% cotton thread Techniques Hand pieced blocks Machine Pieced Longarm quilted Details: Year: 2006-2012 Size: Quilted By: Colleen Granger Story This quilt was in process for about 6 years. I saw a quilt with this pattern at a museum tour somewhere in the East Bay. I started it in about 2006 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/quilts-2\/quilts-2012\/flowering-snowball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flowering Snowball&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":13652,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13850","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13850\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}