Pineapple Square

Well I haven’t done any quilting today but I have finished my laundry – stayed off the computer for a couple hours – read part of a book – and found an applique design for the borders of Pineapple Square!  I even got to work on it.

I don’t know about you guys but when I make bias vines for applique if I have decent sizes leftover I save them.  I wrap around cardboard and put it in a drawer – I didn’t know which drawer it was in but I quickly found it.  I had plenty for this little project.  Saved me time, I’m so glad I had them leftover.

With the borders attached.  I had to put it on the floor so you could actually see it – the borders blending in with the design wall too much to show up.

Bias Vines – I’m not sure which quilt I had used these vines on, but I had plenty leftover for a small project.  I cut the vine 25 inches and then ended up trimming a little off on each side but I wanted to make sure I had enough for all sides before I got started.  There will be a set of 3 leaves on each end and 2 flowers in the middle with  5 petals.  The middle is shown in the book with a button being the center instead of a fabric circle.  Seeing as this will be a wall hanging and not a quilt that a baby or young child could get a hold of I think I will look tomorrow at Hobby Lobby and see what kind of buttons they have – I do believe there is a coupon out this week for 40% off – I will have to check on that.

Several years ago I had order 5 inch charm blocks from Connecting Threads (I just saw on CT that they now carry 104” wide backing fabric for $11.96 a yard, not really in the style I like but some of you might like it fine) from about  4 different collections.  I have enough of the batiks to make the flowers and the leaves.  The book I found the applique design in is from Cynthia Tomaszewski – “Garden Party” pattern is on page 34 called Heart Strings.