Pineapple Quilt

I'm excited to share my Pineapple Quilt! I've always loved a traditional Pineapple Quilt, but wanted to see if I could make the traditional design a bit more modern. I flipped through an older book called Pineapple Passion published in 1989 and found a design that I thought might work for what I envisioned from a picture of an antique Pineapple Quilt in the Gallery of Quilts at the front of the book. No pattern.

I found the block fairly simple to draft, worked out the math and went on to choose a nice rainbow of fabrics.

Here's the result and I couldn't be happier with it! Just what I pictured in my head!

You probably can't find the block outline. It's easier to find if you look at the corner of the quilt pictured above. The blocks are 10" square and set side by side {not on point}. The center of the block is the white square with the gray solid square on point. To construct the rest of the block, I pieced 1 1/2" strips around the center square {each block uses 2 different colors adjacent to each other}. After each round of strips, I used a white square on each corner and sewed on the diagonal of that square to create corner triangles. I repeated with 2 more rounds of 1 1/2" print strips and white squares to complete each block.

Because my rainbow color way was preplanned, I pieced each identical diagonal row before going on to the next.

The top sat for a while because I couldn't decide how to quilt it {and I really didn't want to ruin it!}. I decided to bring it to my guild's Sew-In day to ask for advice. The overwhelming opinion was to do simple straight lines - just the way I had been leaning. I ended up doing diagonal straight lines going in the opposite direction of the rainbow pattern.

The backing is a gray print and when I cut off the excess after quilting, I decided the same fabric would make the perfect binding. Done!

I think it's turned into one of my favorite quilts! :)