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FRUIT SALAD SAL: WEEK 4 – PINEAPPLES
Did you guess right?! It’s PINEAPPLE TIME! This week is even more fun, because the FRUIT SALAD book has *TWO* versions – PINEAPPLE FIELDS and PINEAPPLE PICNIC. PINEAPPLE FIELDS First, let’s start with the PINEAPPLE FIELDS quilt, which is the classic yellow and green colorway with 21 pineapple blocks and alternating leaves to really bring that tropical feeling alive! And yes, they look good enough to eat…almost. I have to tell you a funny story… when I was first designing this block and more importantly, the leaves, I sent it over to my…
Here we are! Blueberries will be our focus this week and I know many of you are excited for this one. We don’t always have the Fig Tree blues in all our collections, so when they do make an appearance, they are always a hit…not to mention how CUTE the blueberry blocks are, of course! The BLUEBERRY PIE pattern in the FRUIT SALAD book includes a combination of blueberry blocks and daisies, with a fun layout using pieced flying geese in vertical rows, adding some amazing movement and visual impact. The sawtooth vertical borders can look…
FRUIT SALAD SAL: WEEK 2 – LEMONS
Oh, my goodness. I have been blown away by all the fun projects I’ve been seeing take shape on Instagram and Facebook with the CHERRIES block from week one! Keep ’em coming! This week, week two, we will be celebrating LEMONS! The featured quilt in the front of the book is titled LEMON CHIFFON – a perfect ode to yellow and green and our love of citrus! The leaves and flowers top it off so perfectly, if I do say so myself. Due to the interchangability of the blocks, you can of course make more lemons, more…
Tomorrow is the official start of our FRUIT SALAD SEWALONG and it’s all about the CHERRIES this week! This block has been a fan favorite right out of the gate and I can’t wait to see what projects you all come up with! If you are a huge fan of cherries, as so many of you are, maybe you want to work on this CHERRIES JUBILEE quilt while you dabble with all of the other blocks as well… bring it [as my teenage kids would say :-)]!! Also, wait to see what I worked up for this week…
Hope you guys are getting as excited for all of the fruit goodness coming as I am! Today we are talking about preparation and getting ourselves organized as we prep for our FRUIT SALAD quilts. Susan is going to give us some great tips and hints how to think through and organize ourselves, and she is sharing another one of her infamous ORGANIZATIONAL SHEETS. I have to tell you… that just printing these goodies out makes me feel more organized. So take it away Susan… GETTING READY The Fruit Salad Sew Along is starting tomorrow, and before I…