The amazing, quirky pine cone quilt Laura Fisher showed us in the December issue of TQL reminded me of a popular craft sale and church bazaar item from about 20 years ago. Do you remember those pine cone tree ornaments, constructed of layers and layers of little folded fabric triangles? I never bought one (“I can make that myself!”), but I never got around to making one, either.
So after admiring Laura’s antique quilt, and being a lot more familiar with a prairie point than I was 20 years ago, I armed myself with a glue gun and I decided to see what I could do. Those pinecone shaped ornaments I admired back in the day were built probably on a Styrofoam egg, but I had a 2 ½” Styrofoam ball on hand so I used it. And here it is!
We’ve posted the instructions for the pinecone ornament on the AQS website for you at http://www.americanquilter.com/quilt_life/patterns.php
This would be a great tag-team project, with one person pressing the prairie points and another gluing them to the ball.
We hope you have fun with this!
Thank you for this pattern, I’ve always thought these ornaments were so pretty. I plan to make one every year for each of my Grandchildren using fabric illustrating their interests of the time. What a fun thing for them to take to their first home and use on their tree.
This is cool
in my guild we used pins instead of a glue gun. less messy and fewer burned fingers.
These are beautiful made out of gold, silver or even tartan ribbon for Christmas. I also make these in pastel colours over polystyrene eggs for Easter. I also use sequin pins instead of glue.58CT