Remember all the
Garden Snail Quilt blocks I was making at the beginning of the year? This is
what became of them.
I turned them into
mini quilts and then I turned these two into a cover for the fan in my sewing
room. It gets very very dusty here in summer and I’m not that keen on cleaning in hot weather so a cover is a necessity. I took the photos before they were sewn together (and so
no binding) because I wasn’t sure how the project would turn out. Just as well.
It’s functional but not highly photogenic.
The quilting for
these was done in a diagonal cross hatch that I really liked.
Along with those I
made these two minis for my international Pay it Forward Craft recipients. I
quilted these in an experimental random criss cross way that I regretted pretty
much immediately. You win some, you lose some *sigh*.
I enjoyed making
these blocks… Or wait, did I? I remember complaining about them at the time but
I think, looking back, with some other more time consuming blocks under my belt
since, that they weren’t too bad. I had a few deadlines at the time and that
didn’t help my attitude. I think I would possibly even make them again.
They certainly give
great opportunities to pick a favourite fabric or two to showcase and the block
pattern has an option to paper piece the shell using different fabrics. Now
that sounds like a great scrap buster but could be a tad time consuming for a
working girl.
The pattern is by Pen
and Paper patterns and is available here.
