Chain-links

I started today on another customer's quilt. First up, each block is being encircled with pebbles:

I'm using my favourite Sewline air-erasable markers and a couple of bowls to mark the inner and outer circles, then filling the resulting ring with pebbles free-hand. I made a mini template to mark the guidelines for the wavy links between the blocks in each row.

After that, there will be detail to add to the centre of the blocks, and some feathers between them.