Tim noticed visits to his blog increased substantially whenever he posted one of his snowflake creations. He decided to take one of the designs, enlarge it to make a stencil, and embarked on making a 41-inch square snowflake quilt. Those who follow Tim’s quilting on his blog<\/a> have been fortunate to see the quilt’s progress in greater detail, but we include a few illustrations here:<\/p>\n It starts with a stencil<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blue markup for the quilt<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Work in progress<\/em><\/p>\n Tim used a 40-weight Precencia brand thread in an icy royal blue to add to the frosty tone of the quilt. The finished creation has resulted in Tim’s decision to create a pattern and make it available to fellow quilting and snowflake aficionados.<\/p>\n Semi-finished Snowflake quilt<\/em><\/p>\n He hopes to have it finished soon, but until then, try making this free snowflake from Tim<\/a>. Better yet, for the price of a fancy cup of coffee, visit his Etsy shop<\/a> and download his booklet of 9 snowflake patterns, along with step-by-step paper folding instructions and helpful guidance on how to create these masterful snowflakes.<\/p>\n Maybe next year we’ll have a wholecloth snowflake quilt show, but until then send us a picture of your finished paper snowflakes<\/a> to us and we’ll share them on our Facebook page<\/a>!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Photos courtesy Tim Latimer.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Winter has come early to many places, and along with it record snowfalls and biting cold. We were pleased to find a different kind of snow \u2013 in flake form \u2013 that is much easier to handle and could actually be a welcome addition to your holiday preparations! Back in October we visited with Tim […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[308,9,17,90],"tags":[304,307,306,305,293,294],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6547,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6147\/revisions\/6547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Time](\"https:\/\/www.whyquiltsmatter.org\/staging20231003\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Tim-Latimer-1-Stencil_for_Snowflake_Quilt.jpg\")
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