Working with the diamonds for the Snow Crystals blocks has been fun for me. The pieces in those blocks are, to me, quite large. I’ve been enjoying how quickly I get a large block done (yes, to me a 9″ block is large). It certainly is different from working with a half-inch hexagon or 60-degree diamond.


Today I got a new Inklingo pattern for a hexagon quilt made with 1.5″ hexagons called the Snack Quilt. Those are big hexagons; one could have this quilt put together in next to no time, especially with the hybrid stitching tips for putting it partially together by machine and partly by hand. Me? I’ll do it all by hand because I enjoy the hand sewing so much but I can see the time-saving benefits of the hybrid stitching.

I love Linda’s reasoning behind the naming of this quilt: “On Halloween, I am more into Chocolate than Slasher Movies. There is waaaaay too much chocolate in this house today, all of it Fun Size, and haunting my every thought. So far, I have resisted, but who knows what mischief will happen by moonlight!

I am not a fortune-teller but I foresaw this chocolate nightmare, which might as well be called invasion of the body snatchers, and I have a suggestion … you might want to try the new pattern on the web site, called ‘Snack Quilt.’ When I fill my bowl with fabric hexagons instead of chocolate, it turns a horror show in front of the mirror into something a little less terrifying, a little less like a pumpkin.”

What a great idea — rather than filling up a bowl with left-over Hallowe’en candy, fill up a bowl with fabric shapes and sit and stitch a few together rather than eat up that candy!

Smudge and Lester say the whole thing is just a big yawn! 🙂