Snail’s Trail Quilt with Free Pattern | S7E2 Midnight Quilt Show with Angela Walters

Have you ever worked on a quilt that seemed intimidating, but wasn’t that bad once you got into it? Watch as Angela checks this snazzy snail’s trail quilt from her quilting bucket list. Episode links + Angela’s free pattern below👇
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[@karenhildreth9835]

On my bucket list...a jelly roll rug. I have just, this morning, unrolled the jelly roll to start it! Wish me luck!

[@lizreynolds4554]

I just found you, im so excited. This is so very beautiful! I love the fabrics and the patterns of quilting. I have wanted to do a "snails trail," for a long time. I always thought it must be so difficult, but you have given me confidence. YOU explained and demonstrated so well. Thank you for sharing this with us.😊💖🦓Liz.

[@scoobertina]

Storm at sea. I am starting one for my sons wedding. The hearts will go on pattern.

[@melaniekay3647]

I have a white board where I write down all the quilts I’m working on in the order they need to be finished. There’s 11 of them on the list 😱🤗😅 I have all the fabric cut out for each of them, and just I take turns piecing them. My dream is to get them all ready to quilt and rent out the use of the long arm at my LQS.

[@tanyayakel5987]

My bucket list quilt is a storm at sea!

[@rachelcourt8767]

Tanya Yakel me too!

[@deadiemeyers1661]

The Storm at Sea Quilt is at the top of my list too!

[@MrsGriff3]

Me, too! Those are gorgeous!

[@debbiecrutcher2917]

The storm at sea is on my bucket list as well.

[@melissabieman1198]

Yes!

[@mumblesandwool1243]

Idk how you did it but you made thr snails trail 10x easier and way less intimidating. Ive been avoiding that block because everyone always makes it so diffixult or more complicated. THANK YOU

[@vvkelly97]

A double wedding ring quilt is at the top of my bucket list. Second is a grandmothers flower garden quilt.

[@RenaReich]

A cathedral windows quilt is top on my bucket list. My great aunt was a quilter who did everything by hand. All her stuff was amazing but her cathedral windows were really something else. One day I'll do it.

[@barbaracollins6256]

My bucket list quilt....... double wedding ring! lol some day.

[@myramcfarland818]

Two quilts for the bucket list instantly spring to mind -- a traditional Burgoyne Surrounded and a Giant Dahlia.

[@SmittenKitten.]

My bucket list quilt is any quilt I start on. I always want to start another quilt in the middle of the one I'm working on. I may or may not currently have 8 in various states of -un- finished at the moment. I work on one for a week, then switch... Keeps me from getting bored, and makes my brain very, very angry, so it's a win-win!

[@ShirleyDeeDesigns]

I used to do that with crocheted afghans! LOL

[@SmittenKitten.]

Shirley - That makes me feel so much better! Haha!! It's nice to have multiple projects, but "occasionally" it can get confusing... :D

[@joyepperson3142]

Quilts Jenny

[@Sewtangle]

Oh thank goodness I’m not the only one that does this! I was beginning to think I was crazy!

[@SmittenKitten.]

Loralye, I'm pretty sure we're crazy, we're just the _good_ kind of crazy! :D (PS - I loooove your name! I always wished I were a Loralye, but I'm just a Laura. BORING.)

[@mallorybradshaw8990]

My bucket list is long but a few that come to mind is a modern take on a Navajo inspired quilt and a giant sawtooth star quilt. And so many more....!

[@Reichel6662]

New York beauty is on my bucket list

[@ceciliasiler4284]

Beautiful quilt Angela!

[@heidimcdermott1114]

My bucket list quilt is storm at sea. I think it's gorgeous! Heidi

[@mcarvell3275]

Who would ever down vote this woman! This is on my bucket list and I'm doing it now!!!

[@connieterry7218]

My Bucket list includes a lone star medallion quilt. My grandmother died 30 years ago and I inherited a project she started- she had the 8 arms of the star pieced but not joined. I was not a quilter them, but vowed to one day finish that quilt. I think I've gained enough experience to tackle the project now.

[@cynthiabarrie5895]

Finally finished my snail trail queen quilt all in blues and white! Not too bad!

[@barbaram5787]

My bucket list is...all of them, of course.

[@beverlyhemrich4859]

My bucket list quilt is a lone star quilt. My Grandmother made me one when I was a kid. I still have it 50 years later

[@michellemcgough7476]

My partner and I watched your bargello tutorial and then the half square triangle video with the 80's theme yesterday (LOVED IT~~!!). When he heard that your grandpa taught you how to quilt he must have gotten over the 'quilting is for girls' idea...because we started working on a bargello together today. He cut all the 2.5 strips. I sewed them up and pressed them. He then cut up all the tubes into the correct widths, no mistakes!! Then he went out and came home with supplies for a design wall today after the cutting was done. All I can say is thank you so much Angela!

[@rochellestaffieri3158]

My bucket list is to get my sewing room ready for anything!

[@JunePiperBrandon]

My bucket list is so long, but, Dresden plate in 30's fabrics. I inherited my grandmother's Dresden plate quilt made with feedbacks. I remember sleeping under it as a kid. It was used and abused and I lost it when my basement flooded. I want another one.

[@lolalisa06]

On my bucket list is to finish my queen sized quilt I am currently working on. Last weekend, though, I was able to cross something off of my bucket list. And that was to hold a baby alligator! It was AWESOME!!!

[@kaythompson8721]

Different variations of Drunkards Path is always on my Bucket List. I've made a few...but there are SO MANY!!

[@KarenGonzalez-br7ni]

One of my bucket list quilts is a double wedding ring.

[@GraphPaperGirl]

My bucket list contains any of my original quilts, and the top of that list is the one that wins at one of the big shows. It's in me somewhere, and one day I'll ahve the courage to enter!

[@SundaysChild100]

Storm at Sea!!!! I’ve always wanted to do that pattern. I would even settle for a two color Quilt version

[@judii4370]

Your best quilt ever!

[@lynncormier3748]

Beautiful going on my bucket list

[@gwenmalinowski3308]

Top of the bucket list is the double wedding ring quilt. Someday soon, I hope!

[@sandigriepenstroh9620]

My bucket list includes a Mariner's Compass and a Storm at Sea that incorporates the Snail's Trail block!

[@irisholdner5946]

My bucket list quilt is my uneven log cabin. Finally finally finished after 13 years! It is my masterpiece!

[@tommyetaylor]

I total love your midnight show

[@karenbright7565]

My bucket list quilt is storm at sea. Can't wait to start it.

[@cherieiduke1723]

It took me 20 years but I jumped in and did it. It is spectacular

[@missannie8012]

Never heard of it. But there's already 2 comments on it.. looking it up.

[@missannie8012]

To me it looks more like waves. But beautiful.

[@annmariebuckley9876]

Just finished paper pieced elephant abstraction...now I want to make a bookcase quilt

[@wendycarter7620]

I want to do quilts from pictures. I have a picture of my daughter jumping in the waves at the beach, she has on a skirt because we were NOT going to get wet, and it’s one of my very favorite pictures. My bucket list is to make it into a quilt. Of course my mother-in-law has said I have to make her one like that too!

[@pampainter3193]

My bucket list... Log cabin quilt

[@sk8rmome]

Tula Pink’s Butterfly Quilt was on my bucket list and my first finish of 2023!

[@lesliewagoner4880]

A double wedding ring quilt is my all time bucket list quilt. I am so afraid to try to. I hope you will one day show us how easy it is. Please

[@loriebernhardt5050]

I’m collecting yellow fat qtrs for a yellow and gray quilt with half square triangles. In the meantime I’m making baby quilts with all different block patterns I see on you tube and practicing the quilting designs from you. Trying to clear out my stash as I get to go to the Fall Paducah Quilt show! So excited to see quilts and buy more fabric! Thanks for your inspiration! Oh, and now the snails trail pattern is on my bucket list.....

[@panamajacks57]

My bucket list has a Grandmother's flower garden quilt on it......I started it two years ago. Have always want to do the snail pattern. You made it seem so easy, it may be the next quilt. Thanks Angela.

[@janiceideus2656]

I love it. I guess this one has to be on my Bucket List now. But, there are a few that I have to do first. But I really love the colors and the design.

[@babeyblu06]

My bucket list starts with the Mariner's Compass. I'm retiring at the end of the year so maybe I'll get started.

[@PamelaGoodman-56]

My bucket list includes a big Lone Star quilt :)

[@barbaram8679]

Pineapple quilt is on my bucket list 🌺

[@karencollier6409]

HaHa! “ Why the snail not” I Love it Angela. I Love this pattern, it does look fun and easy, so I will be adding this one to my second bucket list. First bucket list is full 😆

[@annemariemartin4946]

Love this video Angela!!

[@denisepineda1788]

I love this quilt especially because of the glitzy fabric you used. I love the metallic and the butterflies are so cute. I may have to get this for my daughter since she loves butterflies. You can tell how much you love FMQ when you look at the quilting you do on your quilts. Fabulous! Thanks so much for sharing this with us.

[@lindapugh4778]

The double wedding. Ring is on my bucket list!

[@jackiebass9807]

New York beauty, and bargello are on the top of my bucket list

[@terrycarney2961]

I'm sew glad to see you make a snail trail quilt Angela. It is on my bucket list too. I'm currently working on a feathered star quilt (actually Eleanor Burn's All Star Quilt). Also on my list is a Tennessee Waltz quilt, and a sampler quilt. Great show and I really enjoy your personality. Terry

[@pifer44]

My bucket list quilt is a Cathedral Window quilt.

[@chrismagellan4669]

Wow! Gorgeous!!!

[@Carol-Bell]

This snail quilt is gorgeous. I think it’s the prettiest quilt I’ve ever seen. The fabric colors and gold touches and white dashing and background and colored trim all work together to be just stunning. The quilting sends it “over the top”!

[@sarahricaz]

The double wedding ring quilt is on my bucket list. I’m doing a grandmothers flower garden all 1 in paper pieced right now. I’ve been working on it off and on for 5 years 😆

[@BadMomCrafting]

I always love finding quilts, but never have the confidence to try them. I've tried "designing" my own and have completed three quilts. Not that they where any good. But I really enjoy making them. But while laying here at night watching the Midnight Quilt Show while my husband watches his stuff. If I find a quilt I like, I show it to him. We both really loved the 2-at-a-time Half Squares Triangle quilt you did last season. If I had a bucket list, that quilt would most likely be at the top of my list.

[@rhodajohnson7126]

Wedding ring quilt is on my bucket list

[@geauxdoe1]

Love the Snails Trail....beautiful fabrics! My bucket list quilt was a bargello I made last year! Took 8 weeks, but I was excited how it turned out!

[@deannafischer1306]

The bargello is my bucket list quilt for sure! Haha

[@anniya12345]

Just beautiful 💖

[@sarahvirginia]

Besutiful fabric!

[@beccacramer7990]

Bargello, and Double Wedding Ring!!! That's my quilt bucket list.

[@kristenmcguire5959]

On my bucket list: a Giant Heart Quilt.

[@northidahoquiltguild1796]

WooHoo! You are SO my hero! Love to watch your videos and am inspired to finish the multitude of quilt tops already made. I know, a finished quilt is better than a perfect quilt top, right? My bucket list is very long as my creative mind works faster than my scissors and thread. I try to keep up, but there aren’t enough hours in a day! Wish there were only one to mention here, but, alas there’s only so much time to devote to this comment. Love you girl......happy quilting!

[@___melanie]

I saw Cynthia Wong’s quilt winner of the CQA ribbon at the Almaguin quilt show in South River this weekend. Pattern: LA PASSACAGLIA, English paper pieced and now one of those is on my budget list 🤗 it blew me away. I Will probably do a different pattern but still English paper pieced. It was inspiring

[@lindam5411]

Double wedding ring on my bucket list.

[@teresah4972]

Beautiful!!

[@carenfitzpatrick7197]

Hunter's Star is on my bucket list.

[@lindacreech3413]

My bucket list includes a log cabin and a double wedding ring

[@karengreenhow7640]

I love this quilt! The quilt on my bucket list is a bargello quilt. YIKES! They are so beautiful and intimidating at the same time! :-)

[@mumblesandwool1243]

Elleanor burns victory quilt is definitely on my bucket list

[@junekent1734]

On my quilt bucket list is a bargello and a double wedding ring.

[@spagstuff]

This is one on my bucket list. Thank you for showing me that it's not as hard as it looks. And I love the quilting you did.. now I just have to finish the two I'm working on so that I can get to this one!!!

[@foggymtn]

Hexies are on my bucket list. I've always wanted to try English Paper Piecing.

[@jillmumford8934]

Please please show us What you do with all your thread ends when you've quilted!! I've only just discovered quilting and your videos! AMAZING! Now I've had the courage to make one but now the scary part ..... Quilting...

[@jsbulldogs1854]

My bucket list quilt was a lone star quilt - just finished the top and now I'm trying to decide how to quilt it! :)

[@patriciahadder2284]

One of my bucket list quilts is the Snail's Trail Quilt. Thanks Angela for showing how to make it.

[@vickidennis1790]

a window box quilt is on my bucket list

[@roseschovanec6706]

The bargello quilt is on my bucket list. 😊

[@catslacquered8389]

Apple Core is top of my future list since 1998- the first idea that pulled me into quilt sewing. Back then I realized I had to improve my cutting and prob need to retire to make it (junior in hs in 98!) Nowadays, I just need to invest in all the sizzix paraphernalia and get to it. However, between then and now, I piled up 'realistic' quilts and projects that need finishing first.

[@stellaellis61]

I just started quilting so every quilt I do is on my bucket list, LOL. I love your show Angela and I can't wait to start trying some of them. Right now I have 3 T-shirt quilts that I am trying to finish, waiting on the owner to bring the back fabric of her choice so I know how big I can go. Thank you for the videos and keep up the GREAT work!!!!

[@ritajohnson5594]

Just did a block for a sampler but seeing the snails trail in a full size quilt makes me think I need to do this. Thank you!

[@hannahhurey5866]

On my bucket list is Storm at Sea, but maybe with reds, orange, yellows. However, this year is all about decreasing my stash and picking patterns to use up those fabrics (well...maybe I might have bought one or two other fabrics too).

[@cathymazzittello1671]

Thx for all you do

[@lanastewart7310]

My bucket list quilt is the Swoon ! Love your Midnight Quilt Show!

[@martaa.masotti473]

This is great Angela!!! ... how did you know that I also have some shimmery fabrics that I didn't know what to do with?? So yes, those fabrics are in my bucket list ... Thanks for this great possibility!! Really like the cutting instructions on the pattern. No waste!! Thank you and love your snail trail quilt.

[@loriannfish9488]

One quilt on my bucket list is a red and white curved log cabin. Someday....

[@beeinthebackyard]

I have always wanted to make one. After watching this, I am inspired to make one.

[@patriciafalasca4035]

My bucket list: practically all the quilts you put together :) I just love the midnight quilt show and I hope some day I'll be brave enough to finally start a big quilt!

[@thunderquilts7524]

Storm at sea, snail trail, double wedding ring, island hosta, and Tula Nova are my bucket list. I am almost finished with a Harry Potter paper pieced book case quilt. ☺

[@Ali626AMM]

The snail trail quilt has always fascinated me. And your colors used are my favorites! I've done a sort of log cabin and a jelly roll race and rail fence. My bucket list quilt now is to finish the double wedding ring anniversary quilt that I started for my cousin a couple years ago. I got a little ambitious for my first large quilt and decided to hand piece and hand quilt. Umm, their 2 year anniversary is in a month, but I'm still trying. It may take me until their 5th anniversary, but what an anniversary gift, right? No one ever gets really nice gifts like that for anniversaries (at least not in my family). I adore watching you. Your "finished is better than perfect is what has kept me going on the massive anniversary quilt because I know they will love and treasure it even if I think there are flaws. Thank you for so much hard work. Maybe I'll do the 🐌 quilt for the newest baby in the family. Then it's only a little project. 😘

[@dorenenagy564]

Turned out beautiful. Love the colors.

[@patticlaude1]

So beautiful. Its been on my bucket list as is the pineapple....love your shows. I'm drowning in swirls that look like I had way too much popcorn.

[@nicolewolfcry7408]

My bucket list is to do a Fan Quilt and a Log Cabin Quilt. They were the last quilts my Grandmother made before she passed and the most complicated beauties she ever made.

[@memccauley66]

Storm at Sea = My bucket list

[@janettebarr6538]

Thanks for the pattern xx

[@Happybidr]

My bucket list includes the Double Wedding Ring quilt and a Dresden quilt and something I think I’ll be adding onto the next quilt I make, an interesting border like the one you are doing for this quilt. I love the multi-fabric borders that I think really pull together any quilt in a special way, and one that shows how I was willing to go the extra mile to make this quilt really special.

[@rkerner2932]

gorgeros quilt!! I have wanted to do a snails trail but also storm at sea

[@joanm.shubert8978]

Love the shinny fabrics too.really cool way too.

[@shouldhavezagged]

The quilt I'd like to make is a one block wonder! It's not really my style, though, so I think I might try it in a Christmas fabric for a special holiday quilt.