Has anyone heard of a pattern called PINEAPPLES. I saw it demonstrated today and was very impressed. Is it as easy as it looked?

How was it done?

Is this what you are talking about?

http://www.geocities.com/pcpiecers/pineapple.html

No, the one I saw had no piecing. It was all done in squares. I just ordered the book from Amazon and want to try the sample I saw. It was georgeous.

Here is the one Patrice posted some time ago

http://www.quiltingboard.com/posts/l...58.page#249611

This is it, except instead of cutting the triangles, the demo I saw faced the squares, sewed all around the square, cut the triangles after the sewing and turned it inside out. It had the same effect.

Thank you for your information. I saved it and I'll try it.

Gilla
I saw this demonstrated yesterday too. Have shied away from pineapple block because of waste, but this was a great way to do it. Going to try it soon.

Did you attend the San Antonio Quilt Guild yesterday?

The pattern June gave link to I know as 'square within a square' and the one tirnhi gave is known as athe Pineapple block. I have made several of the latter and they are really fun. Using your printer reduce/enlarge mode, you can make the squares any size you want.

Hope we have helped and not hindered.

I just sat down and did a couple of them. They turned out nice. I started with a 3" square and am now at a 5" square in a different color.
I always hated using triangles as I could never match them right. This is ieasy, BUT, I wouldn't want to do a whole quilt like that.

Here is a pineapple quilt a friend of mine made and I quilted for her a couple of years ago, but it was paper pieced, no blocks. I have the pattern for it around here somewhere.

Did you send the URL? I did not see what you tried to show me.

Can you see it now ? if not hit your refreash button.

Yes, but this is not the same thing as I am talking about. The one I am referring to is made up of squares and triangles and don't look like Pineapples. I don't know why they call it that.

I didn't think so but I though you might enjoy the quilt, didn't to take your thread off track :D

your pineapples are beautiful ozark, thanks for sharing them too! That's what is so great about this forum....such a wonderful variety of patterns to share!

I just found a pattern for a Pineapple quilt by Darlene Zimmerman and fell in love with it. It is done in reds and whites and would be beautiful for Christmas. I was wondering if there are any hints or tricks anyone can share with us.

ozarkgal, that is a pretty quilt!

Gilla, I have seen what you are talking about...either in a tute here, on board, or on tv. Hmmm, fill my head with so much quilty stuff, if I didn't copy, paste, bookmark, etc. I'd lose my head! It's a really great technique isn't it?
It surely is on my bucket list...just can't see the bottom of the bucket anymore :lol:

Thanks for sharing. I loved the one you showed. It looks much harder than what I had in mind.

I should never have joined this forum. I found alal kinds of information and turned around spent $30 om fleece, $30 todat on Charm Packs and now sit here thinking I should have gotten a couple more or the quilt won't be big enough. Oh geez. Who gave me this address?

LOL is that anyway to Thank your new friends :wink:

I got so exited I couldn't even spell right,, or else my fingers slipped. It is a good thing that I am on my own computer or I would have a fight on my hands. I spent almost all day yesterday going over information on this forum. Luve y'all in spite of it. LOL

\Thanks ladies. I'm glad you enjoyed the picture, just to be on the up & up, that quilt was made by my friend 'Mary' in California. I only did the quilting.

Ozarkgal, your quilting is super. Gilla, as for this forum leading you to buy more fabric...........I love this forum and am already in trouble buying way too much. This forum can't make my bad habit any worse :roll: :roll:

I ordered some fabrics from fabric.com Saturday and I received notice today that it is already shipped. Now where am I going to put it? My dining room table is so loaded with scraps, I can't move. We have to eat on easy chairs in the living room. I don't want to buy any more fabrics for a while, but I don't have enough material to finish the one I bought a few days ago. Am I an addict?

You're a bona fide quilter -- you've got the same disease that most of us suffer from :mrgreen:

There is a Log Cabin Pattern titled "Pineapples." I haven't made it, but it is just sewing strips as for the log cabin.

Who makes it?

ladies - why not just buy the pineapple pattern from littlefoot.net for $10.00 and here's 2 i made with the pattern from there.

and here's the 3rd one i made of that pattern.

I am drooling. That quilt is fabulous and I love log cabin patterns. Do you have any idea how many patterns are waiting in line?

All the traditional Pineapple log cabin blocks are paper pieced. I looked on littlefoot website and their pineapple patterns are paper pieced. DoJo is the pattern you used the off set Pineapple pattern? It was the only one for $10.

That is a beautiful quilt. It would be neat to do on tote bag or shirt too. The pineapple block I know about has lots of pieces & looks like strips.

I think this maybe what you are looking for. I've made a couple of these - I saw them at a quilt show in Pomona, Calif last spring and it was gorgeous, but their pattern was paper pieced which I haven't attempted that yet. There is a specially marked ruler for this (mine is by Nancy Smith & Lynda Milligan) called the Pineapple Rule. They are time consuming at first but I would think that once you got the hang of it they would go together much faster. I've only done two but I'm planning on doing a couple more for a table runner.

dojo36, that is a very pretty quilt,it really stands out, I like it.

no mine was not the off set, it was just the plain pineapple. i bought it a couple years ago so maybe they went up in price since then. they are all done in strips except the middle square. i love paper piecing when it's all mapped out for ya, i couldn't do it otherwise.
donna

thank you, i loved doing those.

I have that ruler and book too.

Sybil

yep u are right, lots of pieces and yes they are strips all except the middle square.

Yes, this is what I was looking for. But it was done differently, not paper piecing. She sewed squares together, cut slits in the facing, put another square, and turned it, going on and on to make it about 12" per square. It seemed so simple. I ordered the book and should have it tomorrow.
Your quilt is gorgeous, especially the color combination. Thank you for sharing.