WOW! Looks great!

I enjoyed the 909 show so much too. I ordered the book and ruler right away and just finished my quilt top

Dawn--beautiful block.

Dawn I also love your blue and white with the snow flakes, and also agree that I have been a bit wary of the fussy fabrics in these blocks but yours is stunning and will be giving this a lot more thought and add to my list of quilts to make

Dawn, I love your blue & white block! Now you have inspired me! My friend bought the ruler and has really been enjoying making the blocks, but they were a little too busy for me. But now I see how gorgeous a two color quilt would be. And especially love your snow theme

Dawn,
That block is so restful looking. Blue and white is my favorite combination. Sounds like you have a lot coming up but I didn't see the 2012 BOM on your list. Hmm??..........

Thanks ladies! Just don't hold your breath! You will turn blue if you do! I will be returning to this year's TQS BOM, before I return to the pineapple. And, then there's the HST quilt. Also a small quilt with small pieces. Let's just say I am not bored!

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

That's a very pretty block, Dawn. I'm also looking forward to the finish. Those 1/2" logs are quite small.

beautiful block dawn - looking forward to seeing that quilt once it's finished. snowflakes and icecrystals yeah

Oh Dawn, that block looks lovely. It will be interesting to see more of them together someday.

Annis, I figured there was probably a way of using my existing rulers, but haven't played with it enough to find out. My little pineapples have 1/2 inch finished logs and a one inch finished center, so they are quite small. I really don't have time to work on it right now, but am glad to know I do NOT have to paper piece it! It will all be in snowflake fabrics. (I think I saw your pattern in a booth in Houston?)



Dawn,
In beautiful Northwest Montana

I did the pineapple blocks for my Pineapple Split quilt without a special ruler or paper. You just need square-up rulers with dots at the 1/4" marks. Most of us already have those. And you need to start with a 2 1/2" finished (3" cut) center square which needs to be sewn accurately for the first round, but the logs can be any size divisible by 1/4". I always add an extra 1/8" to the outer seam allowance on the strips to allow for not so perfect seams (a 1 1/2" cut strip would be cut 1 5/8"). And you can square up 2 sides at the same time. I do like her method though and if I had time would give it a try. I have a couple pineapple rulers but don't use them. I just buy them to see how they work. It's educational for me to see all of the different ways you can piece your blocks.

Dawn--you sure pick beautiful areas to live in. The Flathead Lake area is gorgeous and I have visited the Garden of the Gods once and they are spectacular!

I am with Sue on the "too much paper tearing" to do a whole pineapple quilt, paper pieced. I have always admired the pineapple block, and that is the ONLY class I took at Houston Festival last year. (Been on my bucket list for years!) But, we used a heavy vellum type paper for our paper piecing and all the while I was making the block, I was thinking about the hours it would take to pull the heavy paper out. After watching Gyleen's method, I am much more excited about continuing with my only-two-blocks-at-the-moment pinapple quilt. I just have to talk myself into the ruler! I have bought so many "specialty items" over the years, that just sit in the drawer, because they have one use and one use only, that I now shy away from them. So, after watching the show, I was in my studio (fancy name for my sewing room) trying to figure out how to make one of my existing rulers do the same thing as Gyleen's ruler. :shock: WHY do I do this to myself?

Just as a side note, I used to live about a block from the Craftwood Inn in Manitou Springs, and the area is absolutely beautiful. It is near the famous Garden of the Gods in the southwest of Colorado Springs, there are red rock outcroppings everywhere, and it sits in the shadow of Pikes Peak.

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana