Day 313 – Feather Snail

What would happen if you stitched Butterfly Feather Flower as a giant spiral? Let’s try it and see!

Difficulty Level – Intermediate. This is a great way to practice quilting feathers, spirals, circles, and travel stitch all at once! Focus on making the circles and the feathers will work out perfectly. Allow the spiral to take the shape of your marked guideline and that will be taken care of as well so all you really need to worry about is travel stitching carefully between each feather.

Design Family – Center Fill. Feather Snail starts in the center and radiates out to fill your quilting space. Experiment with this design to discover which direction works best for you. Do you quilt better working clockwise or counter-clockwise?

Directional Texture – Center Focused. You can’t miss this blast of swirling texture! The nice thing about this design is you can easily take the circular shape out to the edges to fill the block completely or you can leave it as a circular spiral.

Suggestions for Use – Who says quilt borders must be boring? Pick a point, draw a guideline spiral, and fill that space with a huge Feather Snail, stretching out and filling up the border, sashing, blocks – whatever the snail wants to cover!