romira wrote:
I was having trouble figuring out how they made it but before I scrolled down to find Margo's confirmation I was thinking it might be HST's and squares. It is certainly a beautiful quilt. I wish someone would make it too and I'd love if that someone were me. But I thinking I just can't make them all. Good find, Rita.

Wow Margo... I just found the photo and thought it looked neat. Hadn't figured out how to do it at all. It's a great looking pattern.... but maybe too much trouble as we have the strip spools. It would probably work better if one was working from scratch and using the same colour for the spool and the tops/bottoms of the spools. Roseanne, all your beach hut hunts got me going looking for more images on the web and that's how I found it. My the hours we can happily spend trawling for beach huts and the like!

Margo,
Thanks! You are too good, babe!
Agree, it is a very neat pattern...but hate the thought of trimming my reels!
Maybe I'll play around with some fabric scraps.

Rosanne, here's the deal. The original block is probably made up of mostly HSTs, with a couple of solid squares towards the middle.



If we were to use our exchanged reels, they would need to be trimmed down to something less than 3-1/2" x 3-1/2" because the closest "regular" size HST to work with our reels would be 2" (finished size). If the reels were cut down to exactly 3-1/2" x 3-1/2", they would actually need HSTs that measure 2-1/8" (finished size), and that's not something I would want to fool with!



If I were actually going to make this quilt with our reels, I would paper piece (using Edyta's papers!) 2" HSTs for the outside units, and paper-piece the reel and 4 triangles in the middle as a single unit. I hope someone does this! It's a cool design!

Look like HST to me, Roseanne.

crocus999 wrote:
my thoughts exactly!

Roseanne, I'm so proud of you!

Love that fabric, but don't stop there, just googled 'beach hut fabric' and was blown away with beach huts!
Oh.
My.
Goodness.

Rita,
Love this pattern! Sorry to be such a beginner, but are they surrounded by flying geese or HSTs or some combo?

Thanks,

Rita, everything about that quilt screams "reels, spools!" And everything about the quilt screams, "make me!" I love the colors, the tightness of the pattern, everything about it. Even though I've bought software from Brenda Henning's website, I haven't looked at it for a while. Thanks for posting, I need to go look at Bear Paw Productions again (while my embroidery module is humming away... that's why I'm online right now).

I don't know if anybody else has seen this one but I think it's lovely. It's by Brenda Henning of Bear Paw Productions. She calls it 'Broken Dishes' but those are spools if ever I saw one!

Thanks for the warning Roseanne! I didn't Google, but I did a Pinterest search! OH MY!! Cute stuff!!

Roseanne, you can really dig up some good stuff there! and you can still get your sewing in, with CTS!!! Superwoman!

I am loving the beach hut theme. That skirt is really cute.

Taking a little break from drudgery, reading some blogs & what pops up but this!



http://asewingodyssey.blogspot.com/2012/06/picnic-at-beach-tilly-skirt.html

Wow! Caution: Do Not Google Images - beach hut fabric!

I'm going to be very well-behaved, turn off the computer, make a cup of tea, & go to my sewing tasks!