The background fabric here 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.
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) to mimic the dragonflies playing, and I used free-motion ruler work in the outer border to give the “garden” a fence. The sashing creates a star where it comes together. Look just left of lower center of the detail picture.
The backing fabric is mainly white, but it’s covered in tiny speckles of all of the colors used in the quilt.
The quilt measures approximately 60″ x 60″ and was finished in August, 2021.
Blog posts about this quilt: A New Project, Snail’s Trail Blocks, The top is finished, New Quilting Tool, Dragonfly Playground