The latest quilt is now finished! I had such a good time quilting this one, especially since I wasn’t constantly fighting the weight as I moved it around under my Bernina, thanks to my new suspension system. The background fabric is a white-on-white fabric with happily flitting dragonflies, which is where I got the name for the quilt. I thought the colorful blocks gave the dragonflies a sort of garden to play in. See the fingers and toes of my “quilt rack” here? 😉 Just click on the photos to enlarge them.
The quilt is made of curvy snail’s trail blocks with sashing and inner borders of diamonds in rectangles and square-in-a-square blocks. The outer border is more of the dragonfly fabric, followed by multicolored corded piping and the white binding.
I quilted free-motion swirly motifs and feathers (just because I love feathers <g>) to mimic the dragonflies playing, and I used free-motion ruler work in the outer border to give the “garden” a fence. Can you see how the sashing creates a star where it comes together? Look just left of lower center.
The backing fabric is mainly white, but it’s covered in tiny speckles of all of the colors used in the quilt — a lucky find! And you can see that I continued the multicolored “theme” in the embroidered label.
The quilt measures approximately 60″ x 60″.
9 thoughts on “Dragonfly Playground”
Very nicely done, Sandy, Your label font couldn’t be more perfect.
Thank you, Dorothy! 🙂
Do you have a pattern for this quilt you could share with us?
It’s is so pretty,
Thanks, Lillian! The pattern is a bit of a complication. I originally purchased it (Snail’s Trail Al Fresco), but discovered an expensive caveat (see: <https://sandymike.net/blog/2021/06/23/a-new-project-2/> ). As a result, I re-created it in EQ8, which was easy enough to do. But I don’t feel comfortable just giving it away, since it started as a purchased design. Sorry!
Understand! Just thought it may have been available to purchase.
Thank you!
You did it again! Another beautiful quilt, Sandy.
Thanks so much, Carmen! 🙂
Oh, I love this and I really need to buckle down and do a few labels on my 570! You inspire me.
Thanks, Kathleen! Making labels is fairly quick and easy, and an embroidered label has a longer life than the computer-printed ones I used to make. 🙂