Snails trail quilt

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Black Friday comes once a year, but we can celebrate Block Friday every week, if we want, with how-tos for making contemporary designs from traditional quilt block patterns. I couldn’t wait to bring you this

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The snail trail block is one of my favourite traditional blocks - there are so many things you can do with this block in terms of fabric placement and colour choices. These blocks are 12 1/2" unfinished (12" finished). You'll need at least two different fabrics (although I've used four for the tutorial), and this block works best if you have a high contrast in value between your fabrics. Because you'll be working with exposed bias edges a lot, starch is your friend. It really makes it so…

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Main - Snails Trails and Stars Quilt - This one was done by Fabaddict here on the QB that I saved because of her color choices.Of course I still have it in the folder and not even in stage of making it yet!LOL! Shakespeare in Rainbow Park I forgot to add on page 7 of the link I gave above is another link to a blog with

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Free foundation-pieced Snail's Trail Quilt Block pattern download. This pattern is for a foundation-pieced version of the classic Snails Trail Block. Foundation (paper) piecing ensures accurate results every time you make this impressive design.

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