Introducing Floppy: A Floppy Disk Pattern
Once again, my pattern design has taken me back in time to the 1980s, but this time it's a pair of fun nostalgic blocks! Meet Floppy ! Floppy disks were the original form of portable data storage and it's amazing to think how far we have come since they were first used. The original floppy disks held about 1.2 MB of data, which means that the photo above of my Floppy mini quilts would be too big to store on one! You can make a quilt full of Floppys or use them as part of a larger project or an accent on a bag. Today I am sharing two mini quilts and the baby quilt version of Floppy, and I will post the full-size versions in a separate blog post. I designed the 3.5 inch floppy disk block, or "save icon" as my kids call it, first. This block can be made with 2/3 of a jelly roll strip as long as the fabric direction doesn't matter. In this mini quilt version, I put an open lock square on each side for the flopp...