This QAL is brought to you by Partners in Design: Where Friends and Fabric Meet.

Presenting Patchwork Pickles

(If you’re looking for the Peek at Who? blog hop, you’ll find it here but you are certainly welcome to stay for a while here before you rush on over to see Whoo is Peeking at You? The giveaways are still open.)

This block was designed by Sandra Healy of Sandra Healy Designs. You can download the free pattern here on her blog from now until November 12, 2018. After November 12, the patterns may not be available anymore. Don’t delay, download them today. I did make a few changes to the block because I just can’t seem to make anything that follows the pattern exactly.

This block was released on Sept 18, 2018 but I was late in finishing this block because I spent almost a month galavanting around Europe and just couldn’t finish it before I left. There are only so many hours in a day, you know.

The Fall into a QAL is just wrapping up but just in case you haven’t started your canning yet, I’ll share how I made this tower of jelly jars.

Making a Tower of Jelly Jars

Cutting Chart:

Background: (16) 3/4″ squares, 2.5″ x 2.5″ square, (6) 1″ x 3/4″

Jars: (3) 3.5″ x 2.5″

Lids: (6) 2″ x 1″

Consult the pattern for instructions to construct three little jars using the pieces above. Sew them together in a tower. Sew the 2.5″ background square to the top. Sew this tower unit to your larger jars and trim to 12.5″.

One Other Hint

I hide my threads after I’ve finished appliquéing. I leave the tails loose (no backstitching or machine knotting).

When I’ve finished, I use a needle to bring those threads to the underside. I tie the two threads together using a surgical knot. Then I thread the ends under two or three stitches to secure them so they don’t move around and show against the white fabric..

Voila! Isn’t it tidy and pretty?

See These Hosts

for Construction Tips For Patchwork Pickles

You will magically be transported to each of the following designer and host’s Patchwork Pickles posts by clicking on each of the links.

Block designer Sandra Healy of Sandra Healy designs. Find the pattern here.

• April at JANDA Bend Quilts
• Vanda at Quilting with Vanda
• Sherry at Powered by Quilting
• Bobbi at Snowy Days Quilting
• Jennifer at The Inquiring Quilter
• Abbie at Sparkle On

Don’t Miss Out on My Previous Fall into a QAL Posts 

Tu-Na Quilts: Big Announcement!!! (QAL introductory post with a schedule of when the blocks are released and a sneak peek at the fabrics that I’ll be using.) Yes, I’m seeing spots!

Tu-Na Quilts: Block One—Hedgehog

Tu-Na Quilts: Block Two —Harvest Basket

Tu-Na Quilts: Block Three — Bonfire

Tu-Na Quilts: Block Four — Sunflower with Tu-Na’s Tried and True Easy Steps to Making Accurately Pieced Blocks

Tu-Na Quilts: Block Five — Acorn with Lesson 1: Let’s Take the Wheel for a Spin of Tu-Na’s Tried and True Easy Guide to Fabric and Color Selection for Quilt Blocks

Tu-Na Quilts: Block Six — Pie with Lesson 2: Variety is the Spice of Life of Tu-Na’s Tried and True Easy Guide to Fabric and Color Selection for Quilt Blocks

Tu-Na Quilts: Block Seven — Pumpkins Aplenty

Tu-Na Quilts Block Eight — Autumn Leaf

Tu-Na Quilts: Block Nine — Postage Stamp Turkey This was the block I designed.

Tu-Na Quilts: Block Ten — Patchwork Pickles

Tu-Na Quilts: Block Eleven — Autumn Harvest Barn

Tu-Na Quilts: Block Twelve — Owl I’ve finished appliqueing my owl and posted about it here as part of the Peek a Who? blog hop. Stop on over to enter some giveaways this week.

Tu-Na Quilts: Setting Idea and information on the giveaway which closes November 12, 2018 for a mega-grand prize valued at $200.00. There’s still time to enter. Just sew up a quilt top (doesn’t have to be quilted) using all 12 of these patterns and post a picture.

A winner will be selected at random from all the finished quilt tops pictured.

Entering to win the prize below is as easy as 1, 2, 3.

1. Everyone (You must be 18 to be able to enter to win prizes) gets to participate because International entries are welcome! You do NOT need to have a blog to enter. Hosts and designers are not eligible to win.
2. Make a quilt top using all 12 of the blocks provided to you free of charge for this event. It does not need to be quilted. Take a picture of it. Slight variations of the patterns are ok such as embellishments but keep your blocks true to the designed patterns if  you are entering the giveaway. The blocks should definitely be recognizable as made from these free patterns. Deviating too much (or substituting a different block entirely) will cause your entry not to be counted. If you have questions if it’s allowed for entry into the giveaway, please ask me before you cut.
3. Post a picture of your block before 11:59 PM EST, November 12th either on the Facebook page, or on Instagram #fallintoaqal, or on any of the host’s setting posts on their blogs by clicking on the Linky tool found at the bottom of the posts. You only need to link on one blog as it will show up on all the blogs. (Hopefully, mine at the end of this post will work, too). You are welcome to post a picture on each of the sources but it will only count as one entry.

Thank You to Our Sponsors

 

In addition, the following members of Partners in Design provided prizes as well:

• Abbie at Sparkle On
• April at JANDA Bend Quilts
• Kathleen at Kathleen McMusing
• Sandra at Sandra Healy Designs
• Sherry at Powered by Quilting
• Vanda at Quilting with Vanda

 What I Learned Today:

1. It’s good that I am not a surgeon. I am slow at tying surgical knots, my patients would not survive.
2. I like to be creative.
3. Sometimes ideas just have to sit and pickle for awhile.
4. I haven’t tried all the apple recipes yet. There’s still more things I want to make.
5. I am running out of time so I’ll have to take some apples south with us. We have about 50 bags left. (We started with about 250 each weighing 15-20 pounds).
   

   To help you visualize the size of these apples, I set the Honeycrisp apple inside a Corelle cereal bowl and placed a 1 cup Tupperware measuring cup in the pile. We’ve had larger ones in past years. We have 8 trees: two are Honeycrisp, one is Haralson (good for pies), one is Prairie Spy (yellow), and the rest are delicious mysteries.

6. This gadget has now become my most favorite. It has saved me countless hours of work.
   

   Tu-Na Helper and I peel about 50 apples each night to load on trays for the dehydrator. We’ve only missed three nights in four weeks. Do the math. That’s a lot of apples!

   

   We make 9 trays plain and one tray with cinnamon. They take 20-24 hours to dry.

7. Dried apples taste like candy. My grandsons, ages 4 and 8, love dried apples. I caught them sitting under the table with the bags as evidence; they’d already eaten two full quart bags.
8. There’s about 15 apples in each quart bag.

Question: Do you can or freeze produce to enjoy later? I used to do lots of canning in the past. I really liked to do it until it got to be 2 am and I was taking the last batch out of the canner. I canned pickles, peaches, carrots (without the tops), applesauce, tomatoes, and even ketchup. And then I bought a glass top range. That put an end to my standing over a hot stove with kettles of boiling water and extra hot glass jars. Only after I purchased it did I learn that canning wasn’t recommended for that stove. I never thought to ask before. Now I freeze everything including jelly and apple cider. I just have to remember to use it.

Thanks for stopping by and do come again.

Karen, Tu-Na Quilts

Linking to:

Main Crush Monday at Cooking Up Quilts

Monday Making at Love Laugh Quilt

Let’s Bee Social at Sew Fresh Quilts

Midweek Makers at Quilt Fabrication

Wednesday Wait Loss at The Inquiring Quilter

Can I Get a Whoop Whoop? at Confessions of a Fabric Addict