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27 June 2019

Happy Pineapple Day !!


Meet my sweet little Pineapple Fizz ...



This is the fun quilt that I made especially to celebrate Pineapple Day and the Fat Quarter Shop's Pineapple Day Quilt Along !

Using the fabulous new Pineapple Quilt Block Foundation Paper from the Fat Quarter Shop I made a wall hanging from both the 6 inch and 12 inch blocks !

The foundation paper is nice and thin and makes sewing up these blocks nice and easy.



I made both the 6 inch blocks and the larger 12 inch blocks and changed the fabric placement in half of them - I love how different the blocks look depending on the fabric placement - kinda like a shimmer and a shake !!


I used some of my favourite long hoarded Dreamin' Vintage Bloomery fabric (by Jeni Baker for Art Gallery Fabric) and a solid white for the background.

I LOVE this fabric - its such a fun happy yellow and so perfect for making pineapple blocks (even if it is hard to photograph the true gorgeous colour - the colour of the single block is probably closest !!)


I had fun with the free motion quilting and quilted all the background so that just the yellow pops out!

I also made a few more Pineapple blocks using my never-ending scraps...


Rather than using light/dark for each block I'm using warm/cool colours and I'm planning to use four 6 inch blocks to make a large one like the one above and also using the actual 12 inch blocks in a 4 x 4 row designs - I'm making a lap size quilt with a wide plain border to contain all that crazy scrappy colour in the middle!


Pop over to The Jolly Jabber to check out the other Pineapple Day quilts and projects and hashtag #pineappledayquilt on your socials. I hope you find some inspiration to make your own Pineapple Quilt!!

3 comments:

  1. Really lovely! One of my favorite blocks, but too much work for me.:) The scrappy one is very fun looking!

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  2. Hi Leanne! It's so great to see a blog post from you, though I'm delayed in commenting. I was away from home for 12 days, five of which were completely "off the grid!" So, I sure love seeing these pineapples. You picked such a lovely, bright, sunny color combo. And your quilting is wonderful! You've done a beautiful job. I hope you have a special place to hang this one. I always love a good scrappy quilt too, and your scrappy pineapples are great. You can just make and make them, until your scrap bins are empty, right? :-) Have lots of fun with your mishmash of prints!

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  3. Hi, Leanne, I wasn't sure how to contact you so making this comment is my way. I was part of the 365 Day Challenge starting on 9.1.16. I posted my monthly pictures but didn't actually finish the quilt until about 6 weeks ago. I'd love to share pictures with you. I can send the pictures to you via email; you can contact me via my email address at bulltulip69 at gmail dot com if you'd like to see them. Linda

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