Showing posts with label pineapple blocks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pineapple blocks. Show all posts

Saturday, 12 November 2011

WIPs - Two Quilts for Christmas.

For some illogical reason, I decided that I would try and make my girls a quilt each for Christmas.  I had 2 jelly rolls kicking about in my stash and thought why not ?
There are a couple of Bonnie Hunter quilts I have wanted to make for a while now, so bit between my teeth....off I went.

This one is called Strip Twist and is easier than it looks.

A couple of plain borders and it's done.  It finishes at 72" x 58".  I used most of the jelly roll and have 9 strips left over which will be plenty for the binding and I may even have enough left to make a small matching cushion. 

On to the second quilt now.  This pattern is called Pineapple Blosson. 

These blocks finish at 12.5" and were fast and fun to make up.

Now to decide on which lay out ??


One of the best things about making the blocks is all the little bonus HST's you get.

I had fun playing with these and thought I could even make a childs quilt.......


.......but I have decided to use them for the border instead.




This is as far as it goes at the moment.  I will add a black dotty inner border before the HSTs.  Hope to get all that done today.   I still have a lot of strips of the jelly roll left over ..... I could make the quilt bigger but my girls don't want their quilts 'too big'!
Okay I can deal with that ! but the big question now is...will I get them quilted and bound in time for Christmas ??      I'll try my best.

You can find Bonnie and all her wisdom at  http://www.quiltville.com/

That's all for now.  Enjoy your weekend and thanks for visiting.

Rhianon.
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