Saving New Year's Resolutions

Heidi, now come and clean my monitor! lol Good to see you.

Carole Champlain, NY

hfw wrote:

Marcella, truly a beautiful work of art. I just love the way the colours play together. Thank you for sharing.

Carole Champlain, NY

Marcella Peek wrote:

I want your curls.......already have the short hair. When are you going to bring them over? After the Butterfly Studio is finished would be great--The Arizona Quilters Guild Show is Mar 15, 16, 17------------ ALMOST have the Poiple LC ready for the Pro-Quilter. Just have the long rows to finish (3) and it is the FOR ME Quilt (How many of you have finished your "For Me Quilt"? Remember that challenge?)

How did you come out with your Pineapple Moon Quilt? Did you get a ribbon on it? I loved it :)

Butterfly (Butterfly For President)

I don't do NY resolutions -why set myself up for misery? But that doesn't prevent trying any new idea that comes around. I love getting a bag of scraps from somebody's stash and the challenge of making a top with them. They are often colors I wouldn't even look at in the store, so it's a way to force myself out of my normal palette. Roberta in D

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Thanks! I had a lot of fun making it.

marcella

Thank you. I had been wanting to do something with those fabrics for quite a while. I'm happy with how it turned out.

marcella

Thanks!

marcella

It's been a favorite pattern of mine for years but it took a long time for me to finally make it. I didn't want to paper piece. Fons and Porter had a nice method in their magazine/tv show that used rectangles and squares and when I saw it I knew it was the method for me. Worked great.

marcella

Howdy!

Whooooo----Hoo! Yee-Haw!

Good to see you, Ginger.

Ragmop/Sandy

Well, just before I had my hair trimmed a few weeks ago all the curls were back. I'm thinking to grow it out just a little this time. But the wind at the beach that morning made me happy it was so short!

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Have you tried the 'folded corner' method Marcella? I am doing one block of that in a folded fabric sampler. It looks very pretty indeed. For mine, the bias edge is then rolled back and caught down, but it would be just as good to leave it straight, to form a pineapple. You make a log cabin block more or less as usual and then pin the corners on before doing each round of 'logs'. The corners are sewn by the next logs. The diagonal edge is left 'free'. . In message , Marcella Peek writes

Gosh Marcella, that it absolutely gorgeous! What a beautiful combination of color!!

Patti in Seattle

Marcella wrote: I did pineapples this year. It was one of my "someday I'm going to make..." projects that I finally did. Very fun! It's on my webpage at

=A0 It's done in 5" blocks out of asianflorals and indigos. I don't do the resolution thing, but I do have a list of someday thingsthat I do eventually get around to. Someday I want to do a pickle dishpattern and someday I want to make a feathered star out of MarshaMcClosky's book and so on. marcella

Yep. I had been saying for years that I wanted to enter the Hoffman Challenge, and I did. (Now I am working on an entry for this years contest..... have decided I need a few fairies, can't find the fabric locally. I know exactly what I *want*, but it isn't to be found. sigh.) I also wanted to go to Houston.... which I did. Had a ball and met some of the people here on the list.

Pati, > Last year, I resolved to do something in the pineapple pattern. I didn't.

Thanks! I collected all the fabrics during a shop hop. It was fun to have something to hunt for from shop to shop and then to finally have the right project to use it.

marcella

Sounds similar to what I did. But I sewed down the diagonal and then folded it back.

I love those patterns where the diagonal is left free and then pulled back to make curves.

marcella

I found the same sort of problem when making an applique tank. The fabric I had first chosen was just a smidgen too loose and I couldn't get the pieces hemmed properly at inside corners because it would ravel a bit at the snipped inside point. Since I had several inner points in the design I had change to a different fabric, but I was lucky to find an even better print for my tanks. Debra in VA See my quilts at