Home Again!

I have been  gone for several weeks, it seems like much longer. We drove to Springfield Missouri for Thanksgiving then I flew to Phoenix to visit our daughter for two weeks. Now I'm catching up on everything!

My pineapple quilt came home just before we left for Missouri. I'm glad she's back and I am very pleased how she looks quilted. There is no picture of her hanging on the outside display line because it snowed the morning I took the pictures and the grass was wet.

She measures 99" quilted which is larger than the 98.5" she measured when she was a flimsy. Being pulled tight while being quilted stretched her out completely. There are so many seams in this quilt!

Here she is displayed on the bed.

A straight view. We slept under this quilt one night, this is definitely a heavy quilt!

When I first started piecing these blocks, I made sure the fabrics were only blues and the lights. The blocks looked rather boring, it's the colors in the fabrics that add zing to this quilt. I used a lot of small pieces that have been accumulating over the years.

Calico Point did the long arm quilting, this is the design I selected. I know this design has a name but I don't remember what it was.

I selected a white whole cloth for the backing fabric. I like how it shows the quilting design which doesn't show on the front side of the quilt, it's too busy!

This design looks big but it was close enough together to quilt across the millions of seams.

The striped binding fabric was part of the Tea Garden collection I used for some of the Lady Jane blocks. I ordered the striped yardage to use as binding for that quilt but then it didn't look right. Lady Jane was very particular about her binding.

The pineapple blocks were foundation paper pieced using papers from Gigi's Thimble. She had a sew-along in 2022 which I missed but stumbled across later. Gigi's quilt looks very different from mine since I used blues in my corners while she used lights in her corners. 

A pineapple quilt was on my list of 'someday quilts to make', now I can cross her off the list.

I won't say I will never make a pineapple again but I will say it will be several years before it happens.

Linking to To Do Tuesday, Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Put Your Foot Down, TGIFF!

After I wrote the above post, the farmer got the ladder out of the shop and we hung the pineapple quilt for display.

He's really getting into hanging quilts, he used a tape measure to make sure she was evenly spaced on the rafter!