Pineapple UFO

 I have so many projects in process, with many more patterns and kits and assembled fabrics for quilts. Our guild has started a new challenge this year for UFOs.  And the first step was to identify them.  I know I wrote down more than 2 dozen or my list. ( and that is not all, of course.)  

But I really have been pretty good at staying the course and completing projects in boxes of which I only have 11. Two of them were planned to do last year and have not even been cut out . 

So here are my starts for now:

I put this top together. It was an exchange from at least 10 years ago. 

Here is the extra block completed. I used mostly tone on tone fabrics

And here is the same block from the back.  You can see the paper piecing.

And the reason it has been in time out, is because the pattern which we all used, was not square. One side was 6 3/8 inches while the  others were 6 1/2 inches. I tried to square them up, all 30 of them.  And then, they would not cooperate when sewn together as the seams interfered with the width of the presser foot.

I still like it and at this point it is approximately 29 by 35. I plan to add a coping strip of black and then half square triangles for the border. 

I am also working on an applique border for my Blockheads 2 blocks. It had been sitting in time out for a while as I had the blocks assembled.   I now  have border 1 on and border 2 cut. I am working on the applique pieces.     

Lastly I made 2 more applique blocks for Baltimore Bliss and am caught up to month 7.