'Wot RoTT' exchange

[Lois B.]

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

[Renata L.]

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

[Margo C.]

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

[Rita C.]

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!

[Renata L.]

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).

[Roseanne M.]

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

Thanks,

[Roseanne M.]

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.

[Roseanne M.]

Roseanne, I'm so proud of you!

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

my thoughts exactly!

[Charae H.]

Look like HST to me, Roseanne.

[Margo C.]

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! :roll:



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!

[Roseanne M.]

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.

[Rita C.]

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!

[Lois B.]

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

Thanks,

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.

[Teresa B.]

I have a whole box of HST's I may have to put together a block or two of the Broken Dishes block and see what happens from there.

[Jane R.]

I found this exact pattern in a book I won recently at [i]Celebrating Quilts, a weeklong quilt "camp" here in Flagstaff, AZ. The pattern book was published in 2001 by Bear Paw Productions in Anchorage, AK, USA and is called [i]Scraps Happen - Scrap Quilts 3. It was written by Brenda Henning. She calls this particular pattern Spool Stars. Just a coincidence that my name was drawn during the door prizes giveaways, and that this was the door prize being given then. Must mean I've got to make one since I now have instructions.