Good Morning, Pineapples!

This is my new favorite shirt.  I'm fickle.  Favorites can switch in and out easily, but this one - nailed it!

It was an impulse buy that I don't regret - you can find yours HERE.

The only thing I had trouble with was discerning what a color was by the description - the colors are listed, but not shown in actuality so I flipped through the catalogue to see what the colors could possibly look like.

This was listed as "peach" but it's really a beige-y pink. I'm good with it!

If I could choose my own slogan it would be "Powered by ADHD and Caffeine." LOL!

And all of that excitement over a new favorite shirt lead me into this:

I know I said I was going back to the Winter Cardinal project - and I meant to....but...there was all of this stuff around my sewing machine that needed to be cleaned up first - and if I just sewed the scraps to the paper instead of tossing them in the bin I could do two things at once? Clean up? and make a block at the same time?

Which lead to this;

And then that lead to messing around with video edits and eventually came to this:

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Be sure you click the speaker icon in the bottom right corner of the video for it to play.

I'm still trying to future out why some video posts not posted as reels on Facebook can be embedded but things uploaded with music as a reel cannot.  

And I'm terrible at video editing - I don't have a production crew or a technical director so this is what it is - mostly terrible.

And it took about an hour for each clip to upload - my internet here is so slow which is why I can't do a live QuiltCam anymore, but I can do small things once in a while.

And those strings are going into something super fun!

Did I spend much time on the Winter Cardinal blocks? Nope...but some.

This is taking over!

Answers to questions I know are coming -because they came yesterday.

I drew the pineapple block on my computer and printed it the size that I wanted it to be. 

The PDF pattern for the pineapple won't come out until I finish the quilt (at some far distant date as yet to be seen) Block sizes and more will be published at that time.

It is not the same as the Pineapple Crazy block from String Fling, but that would work in black and whites, too.

I'm not working with specific strip widths - just anything wider than where they need to go in the block.

I didn't measure the width of the finished strips - I printed by block size.

I'm printing on printable newsprint available in the Quilting All the Time category of the Quiltville Amazon Affiliate Store.

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How many blocks do I plan on?  HA!  Have you seen those tubs overflowing in my first video?

Not sure yet - I'm just sewing.

I did eventually get to some Winter Cardinal blocks - and those will be up on deck today as well.  The black/neutral strings are tucked away for now, but I know they'll be back out soon.

It's a good thing that they are tucked away - I've got other things on the front burners, including getting Friday's Indigo Way  Part Four ready for you!

What's up on deck where you are?  Are you deep into holiday prep?  Have you done all of the shopping? Are you making goodies?

Bring me into your world by leaving a comment below and tell me what you are looking forward to doing today.

Quiltville Quote of the Day -

Shake up the routine! Push your boundaries, try something new!

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I’m shaking up my routine by trying something different today.

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Sounds just about right to me!