SNAKE QUILT DONE

 I trimmed the excess backing and batting from the freshly quilted Snake quilt.

Then picked a fabric for the binding.  I thought Kona Juniper, a dark green, would be perfect, but I had less than the half yard which I needed for the binding.  So, I added the little bit of Kona Pesto, a lighter shade of green.

I got the binding made and sewn on, it's done!

NO MORE SNAKE ON THE MACHINE

 I finished the last of the quilting on the Snake quilt.  It's done and it's off the machine.

Yay!

SNAKE FILLER

 I found some quilting patterns to use in the bowtie and quarter circle parts of the Snake quilt.

I adjusted them to fit and got busy quilting.

I got the first row finished.

QUILTING THE SNAKES

 I drafted a template to mark where I should quilt the arcs and then quilted the first row of snakes.

Then I spent most of afternoon trying to figure out how to quilt the other parts of the blocks.

LOADED SNAKE ONTO LONGARM

 I loaded the Snake quilt onto Erik the Longarm.

I decided to experiment and baste the whole thing before I started quilting.  The blocks are all the same size, so I straightened them and used a one inch baste and finished for the day.