Ivy asked

And soon she will receive!

She asked me to make her a snail blanket, for her to wear when she is being a snail. It was not easy to get more information out of her. This is a tough client, who believes that a one-line brief is sufficient.

She did not want a thing that looked like a shell. She did not want a little blanket for her toy cat. She did not want a small blanket or a big one.

It does have to be sofffft and green. These concepts are very important to this client.

I finally proposed a circular blanket with a picture of a snail on it - and the client subtly indicated that this would be acceptable.

When I visited my sister last weekend, I mentioned the project. Liss kindly gave me an old sheet from an op shop, with little green flowers on it. She's been using it as a drop sheet, but it's in good condition. Just one tear in it (presumably from someone's midnight toenail, blurk. The good thing about op shop sheets is that they are worn, and thus soffffft.

That night I made this:

This is an applique snail, made from curtain fabric given to me by my mother-in-law. I adapted the design from a picture on the web. "Adapted" here means "did not include the eyelashes".

I still need to buy something to make the blanket warm - right now it's just two layers of sheet. I had thought of cutting up a woollen blanket (op shop again) but the client has intervened and decreed that this blanket must be light, not heavy. I'm thinking of using polarfleece. I'm wary of using batting, because I imagine it will bunch up.

Stay tuned for the client's final comments.