Thanksgiving week I made another Snuggle Tail!  This time it was a Dolphin.  I made it with a cuddle tail fin in true “Miami Dolphins” teal.  Our grandson Loves it!!

Dolphin Tail

This Saturday I will be teaching the Mermaid version of Snuggle Tails for the Blacksrone Valley Heritage Quilters.  In preparation, I am making a clamshell appliqué version.  I wanted to share a few tips on how I make the clamshells.

#1 – Use Sue Pelland’s “Hearts and More” 5″ template to rotary cut clamshells.

When using Sue’s templates use a 28mm cutter.  It cut easily around curves.

#2 – When cutting curves with a rotary cutter, us a small cutter.  (28mm or less)

60mm top right
28mm below

To cut the clamshells…

1. Use a 5″ square.
2. Cut the top curve.
3. cut the bottom left, aligning the center cross hairs 1/4″ from fabric edge.
4. cut the bottom right, aligning the center cross hairs 1/4″ from bottom right edge.

2. Cut top curve

3. Bottom left corner.

4. Bottom right also cut.

In quilting,

Debbie