Snail’s Trail - Virginia Reel Block
This queen sized bed quilt features a classic pieced quilt block pattern. I love how the squares and triangles create the illusion of interlocking swirls that dance across the quilt, like the square dance the block is named after.
The design was inspired by an existing pattern of the classic virginia reel block. But I altered and tweaked it to increase the block size by adding a ring to the swirl.
Quilt layout consists of alternating blocks of two similar, but different colorway pairings: Bright blues with light cream fabrics; and Dark blues with greenish taupes. The fabrics for each block are randomly picked from their colorway. This random fabric placement gives texture and interest to the repetitive graphic feel of this classic quilt block.
All fabrics were chosen by me to create the four subtle colorways.