Frosty

This week's contest theme at the Quilting Gallery is Snowmen.  I made this little wallhging in 2003.  It's called "Frosty".  It's my original pattern.  I gave him 3-D snowballs (pom-poms) to juggle and did some sponge painting on the tree.  It's still one of my favorites.  Go on over to Quilting Gallery to vote for your favorite.  It doesn't have to be mine.  There are some really cute quilts this week.

Some of My Favorite Snowfolk

Several years ago I spent some time creating snowmen from recycled chenille bedspreads and thriftstore sweaters, socks, etc. These are some of my favorites. They were all my original designs, made on the fly without benefit of patterns. Most have baked clay noses. I never knew exactly what I was going to make. I'd just cut a shape for the body and start dressing it. They always seemed to exert their own personalities and tell me how they wanted to look. I sold most of these at craft shows. I only have one or two left for myself and really wish I had more. Maybe I need to think about making some again.

Anyway..these are some of the bigger ones. Hope you like them.

What do do with a yellow bedspread??????

"Safe & Warm, Out of the Storm"
Donated for a domestic violence awareness fundraiser

Baked clay

"graham crackers"

and mini Hershey Bar

wrappers in the

pocket for making S'mores.

Snowfolk II--The Little Guys

After making the bigger snowmen and groups I just kept making smaller and smaller ones, using up the scraps of chennile. They are again, all my original designs.

I called these "pencil snows" since they were about the height of a pencil or shorter.