Pineapple Block - Paper Pieced
09-12-2009, 03:15 PM
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Thanks for the encouragement, everybody! Does someone have the pattern for the version where the corner triangles overlap the strips (like the one KSCrafter posted)? That version gives more of an illusion of depth, I think!
Here is a good site for all kinds of instructions, and TONS of patterns...and this is where I got my pineapple pattern. This link is to the paper piecing basics lesson:
http://www.quilterscache.com/StartQu...tingthree.html
See my blog at: http://quiltwithus.connectingthreads.com/profile/AM for more on the continuing saga of my "Quilt Mania"! :-)
Here is a good site for all kinds of instructions, and TONS of patterns...and this is where I got my pineapple pattern. This link is to the paper piecing basics lesson:
http://www.quilterscache.com/StartQu...tingthree.html
See my blog at: http://quiltwithus.connectingthreads.com/profile/AM for more on the continuing saga of my "Quilt Mania"! :-)
09-12-2009, 03:21 PM
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Hey Bettia -- Since I'm drawn to the shapes and layers of the pineapple to start with, I would just stitch in the ditch to accentuate the layers. On the 'quilt show' version posted above, the triangles appear to be folded over the strips -- I would NOT stitch that down for fear it would keep that 'floating' illusion from happening.
Good luck -- pls post a picture! There's a discussion topic somewhere (Main? General?) on how to post pix, but basically you click the "Attach Files" button on the same page where you type your comments. Don't "Preview" or you lose the attachments and have do it again. :wink:
Good luck -- pls post a picture! There's a discussion topic somewhere (Main? General?) on how to post pix, but basically you click the "Attach Files" button on the same page where you type your comments. Don't "Preview" or you lose the attachments and have do it again. :wink:
09-12-2009, 03:33 PM
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Hi Ducky --
See the post right above yours for a link to 'paper piecing basics'. The hardest part was getting started in the middle. Once that was done, square and trimmed, the other pieces just fell together. I pinned just the corners -- not thru the paper -- the little pieces just seemed to cling to each other (no gravity there), and as long as the pieces were big enough to cover the shapes, I just stitched on the lines. My triangles and white strips were very precise, so I used those edges to line up with previous sewing lines...it got easier the farther out on the block I got, so the last couple of 'rows' went together very quickly!
I tried paper piecing my big project today -- posted some comments on my blog at http://quiltwithus.connectingthreads.com/profile/AM just now. I'm "AnnaBanana" over there!
See the post right above yours for a link to 'paper piecing basics'. The hardest part was getting started in the middle. Once that was done, square and trimmed, the other pieces just fell together. I pinned just the corners -- not thru the paper -- the little pieces just seemed to cling to each other (no gravity there), and as long as the pieces were big enough to cover the shapes, I just stitched on the lines. My triangles and white strips were very precise, so I used those edges to line up with previous sewing lines...it got easier the farther out on the block I got, so the last couple of 'rows' went together very quickly!
I tried paper piecing my big project today -- posted some comments on my blog at http://quiltwithus.connectingthreads.com/profile/AM just now. I'm "AnnaBanana" over there!
09-18-2009, 07:49 AM
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