Three more blocks finished tonight.

See all the bonus half square triangles to the side.  They will make a great border.  I get four of them with each block I finish so I will have more than enough to go around this king size quilt. 

I only have 7 more blocks to make and then I can start sewing them together. 

Pineapple Blossom (Getting Bigger)

This is the quilt from the Bonnie Hunter Class.  She has this and many more free patterns on her website you must check it out.   Here is the link to this quilt pattern Pineapple Blossom.  You may also notice that I have a link to her website on my home page.  

This is a big WIP and getting bigger.  I am making this for my king size bed.  I now have 46 - 12.5" blocks. Only 10 more to go.  I can't wait to start sewing this together.  I have to hurry my mom is ahead of me. She is sewing on her boarders.  

Mine is bigger. 

This is what my mom is working on.  She decided to put sashing and corner stones between her blocks.  I like how that looks.  I just love the blue and white.  Cant wait to show more pictures when she finishes.

Pineapple Blossom

This is just the beginning

I had the pleasure of attending a Bonnie Hunter workshop with my mother in January.  We had a wonderful time on the west coast of Florida.  Our class was on a thursday so we made a long weekend out of it.   We went to every quit shop in a 60 mile radius and we even did some sewing in the hotel room.

Mom found out that Bonnie Hunter was coming to Punta Gorda in January to teach classes and do a lecture/trunk show.  Peace River Quilters Guild was putting this on so Mom contacted them to see if there was any openings for the class.  We got in!!!    

More To Come

Bonnie's Trunk Show

Here are some pictures from Bonnie Hunters Trunk Show.  There were so many people there it was hard to get good pictures.  Most of the quilts were king size.

 This first quilt explained what size to cut your strips into.

I Met Bonnie Hunter!!!

I was very excited to meet Bonnie.  I follow her blog daily.  I watch her on QuiltCam and she is everything expected.  If you have never been to her website check it out.  There is a link on the right side of my main page.  Her website is called Quiltville.  She is a fantastic quilter and likes to use up scraps and shares most of her patterns.

 The quilt behind us is the Pineapple Blossom using 1.5" strips instead of 2.5" strips like Mom and I used.

This was just a quarter of the class.  Can you find me and my mom?  We weren't able to sit at the same table but we were close.  The ladies we met were so nice.

I was so happy when one of the ladies asked Bonnie to show us how to De-Bone a shirt and she did.  This is her De-boning a shirt for us.  Here is the link of her doing it on her website.  She says gets a lot of fabric from a mans XL or XXL shirt. It seems like a lot of work but she did it quite quickly.  I may have to try it if I see a shirt I like.

Mom and I even had the chance to go to dinner with Bonnie and a few of the other ladies.  What a great time.