Monday, 20 August 2007

It's huge (again)

It started off as 20 blocks, but then I preferred the layout that 36 blocks gives you and so I made an extra 16 blocks of Bonnie Hunter's lovely Pineapple Blossom.

Here they are just laid out in rows. I'm not going to sash them. I'm just going to add plain cream borders.

I have used up almost all my butterfly prints. (Even the cream is a COC butterfly print)



I say almost all as I found 2 more butterfly FQ's when I was re-'hiding' my stash under our bed in preparation for the great bash through into the house (for those of you you've only just started reading this blog, my sewing room is only accessable from outside. I share it with the washing machine, tumble dryer and freezer and my DH is going to break through a wall and make the utility room a proper part of the house. I will lose access to washing facilities as well as 'my space' for goodness knows how long. Hence my quiet reorganisation of 'stuff' throughout the 'safe' parts of the house)

5 comments:

Kate North said...

it's very pretty - you don't really see the butterflies from a distance, just the colours (which is good, I think), so when you get close, the butterflies are a nice detail...

Fiona said...

Lovely, pineapple blossom is yet another on my 'to do' list. I much prefer it without sashings as you have done.

Unknown said...

Well Karol-Ann I bow to your superior judgement. When I saw all those gorgeous butterfly fabrics cut into strips in all the different colours I thought 'Oh dear what a shame to cut them all up' and now I'm eating my words - the pineapple blossom is beautiful, the colours and patterns on the fabrics play together so beautifully! and it's perfect without sashings. I wouldn't have had the courage but I'm so glad you did. Can't wait to see it with the borders on

Vicki W said...

Wow! That's really pretty!

katepang said...

I love this pattern, especially in the fabrics that you have chosen - they are just SO right! What are you going to do without your SPACE?! I'm just starting to establish mine, and my work rate has gone up (but only a little)