FRUIT SALAD SAL: Week 5 – APPLES
It’s time for this classic…APPLES! Do you have a favorite variety? Personally, our all time family favorite is the PINK LADY. But I am happy for you to tell me another crisp but sweet apple in the comments below. We are always looking to see if anything can beat a PINK LADY. Contenders? The quilt debuted at the front of the FRUIT SALAD book (click HERE for the book) is CANDY APPLES. Mix and match your favorites reds – and add in a few Granny Smith greens, if you like – to create a quilt full…
I bought a new ceramic flower pitcher featuring a hand-painted tulip accent – from Amazon, if you can believe it HERE – and when it arrived a little while back, I fell even MORE in love with it! It is the perfect tan color with the most beautiful hand painted tulip on it. It is wonderful… wouldn’t you agree? Of course I filled it with my favorite faux lime hydrangea blooms and it immediately became my coffee table centerpiece! As I looked at it every day, the idea of turning it into a quilt, using its…
These quilted project bags have been on my ‘TO SEW’ list for sooooo long, but there just doesn’t seem to be enough hours in a day, am I right?! With the release of the FRUIT SALAD book, we had a few test blocks left over, and they were just too cute to sit in a drawer. It was time! In honor of PINEAPPLE week on our FRUIT SALAD SEW ALONG, we are going to focus on the pineapple version of this bag [and a larger scrappy patchwork one too just for fun] but REST ASSURED that…
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…