My Quilt Dance In the Pineapple Rain

Here is my Pineapple Rain Quilt Top! 

I designed my own modern version of the Pineapple Day quilt.

This top is featured today on 

The Jolly Jabber

Pineapple Day Quilt Along @ Fat Quarter Shop

This is my Pinkerville Pineapple Day Quilt

I was piecing pineapple paper blocks with the rain falling outside my sewing corner window

when suddenly the sunlight streamed in my window.

After three days of rain, the bright rays felt like a blessing.

So I went out to snap this photo from my back porch on my small urban hill in New England.

I call this a Pineapple Rain type of day.

Five minutes later it was deluging again.

This photo was the inspiration for my own layout of the Pineapple Day Quilt. 

I designed and sewed this quilt for the ... 

Here is the layout and

Free Pattern PDF download and Free Video Tutorial

for the quilt as designed.

To make my quilt I sewed

Four 12.5" pineapple papers blocks

and

Twelve 6.5" pineapple papers blocks

To piece my blocks I used these easy sew-by-number 

Pineapple Papers @ Fat Quarter Shop

Then I set my small blocks on point to represent the falling rain. 

Twelve 6.5" blocks on point 

My Tutorial for How I set these block On-Point Here

After trimming and squaring, these on-point blocks now measure 9.5" square.

To sew them into my quilt top I needed then to be the same size as my Pineapple Sun Block.

Sew I added 2" strips to the top and bottom on these elongated blocks.

I sewed them together as shown, adding 2" strips to either side of my on-point blocks

and four 12.5" squares of background fabric for the

negative spaces in my modern quilt layout.

I added 4.5" strips of outer border fabrics as shown

to represent the sky and earth. 

The day I took my quilt top outside for photos was a gray day with impending rain.

It has been a very rainy and cool spring in the northeast.

Suddenly it has become summer and I am spending a lot of my time outside

catching up on garden work.

I hope you like my quilt top.

I hope to have it quilted soon. 

Have a happy Pineapple Summer! 

Pineapples On Point ~ My Method

This is my Pineapple Block On Point.

This 6.5" Pineapple Block, trimmed and squared, now measures 9.5" square.

I stared my 

Pinkerville Pineapple Day Quilt Here 

I am sewing along with

Pineapple Day Quilt Along @ Fat Quarter Shop

I am using these easy "sew by number" ...

Pineapple Papers @ Fat Quarter Shop

I love them because I can make precise blocks by sewing on the pre-printed lines,
a big help to me with my vision issues.

Here is one of my 6.5" unfinished blocks. 

Here is the back of my block reday to set on point. 

To set on point I first removed the papers.

Then I sprayed with Best Press and pressed my block. 

I also sprayed with Best Press and pressed my background fabric.

This is an important step as there are a lot of bias seam in this setting

and starching and pressing helps to keep the block from being distoted.

I cut my pressed fabric into 8.5" strips.

Then I cut in 8.5" squares.

I use a 3lb. weight to hold my long cutting ruler to keep it from slipping.

Then I sprayed with Best Press and pressed my squares,

being careful not to stretch or distort the squares. 

This I cut my 8.5" squares on the diagonal twice to get my setting triangles.

This is the layout of my on point block.

The long outer edge of the triangles aligns with the edged of the block.

This is the straight of the grain of the cut triangles.

The bias edges are the points on the outside.

Then I sewed opposite sides and pressed outward.

Then I sewed on the last two sides.

It is important not to stretch the fabric in the triangles as you sew 

so that the bias edges do not become distorted.

Here is my block sewn into my top!

I am sew happy with this quilt top and cannot wait to show it to you next week on June 27th.

I hope to have my top quilted by then.

Edit:

This fabric line is 

Pinkerville by Tula Pink

I found my

 Pinkerville @ Fat Quarter Shop

Have a happy quilty weekend.

One Pineapple ~ Two Pineapple ...

Three Pineapple, Four ...

... and many more to sew.

Big Pineapples and Little Pineapples.

Time to sew some more.

These are more of my

Pinkerville Pineapples Posted Before

These blocks are fun to sew for the

Pineapple Day Quilt Along @ Fat Quarter Shop

Are you sewing along? 

Welcome to Pinkerville ~ Home of Fabric and Flowers

Welcome to Pinkerville today!

I am sewing along with

Pineapple Day Quilt Along @ Fat Quarter Shop

This is a

Free Pattern PDF downoad and Free Video Tutorial

Click on the link above for the 

free pattern pdf. download and the video link

and all the info you need to sew along!

I am using 

Pinkerville by Tula Pink

I found my

 Pinkerville @ Fat Quarter Shop

This cream background fabric is my second favorite fabric in this line. 

This is my favorite!

I am not really a purple person.

This periwinkle is my favorite shade.

Add the lime and the tiny touch of yellow in the flora and fauna.

I am in fabric heaven. 

This fabric glows!

My photo does not do it justice.

I am working on the 12.5" blocks now.

I am finding this long
Add-A-Quarter Ruler
invaluable while making these blocks.

If you wish to use this easy to sew-by-number method
you will need these

Pineapple Papers @ Fat Quarter Shop

I love them because I can make precise blocks by sewing on the pre-printed lines,
a big help to me with my vision issues.

I am also finding that I need my large light box to properly see
the placement of these fabrics.

Here is one of the 6.5" Pineapple paper blocks I have made.

I started this quilt Here in April.
I am just starting the 12.5" blocks

It is time to get 'er done.

It is a beautiful day in the neighborhood.

My clematis is full of big purple star blooms and is growing up my trellis,

I am really happy because this is thriving in a place that is hard to get anything to grow

because of how narrow the space is between the parch and the wall in our driveway.

This was a $2.99 plant a few years back from Walmart 

and there was one hot summer it got too dry while I was away. 

I am so happy to see it happy.

Someone once told me that clematis like

"their feet in the shade and their heads in the sun."

This may be true as this spot gets early morning sun, then is shaded by our neighbor's house and then gets sun on only the upper part of the trellis in the afternoon.
This photo was taken during its midday shade.

Do you see the color similarities in the Pinkerville floral 
and the colors in my clematis?

I just noticed this as I published this post.

Must be why I love that fabric. 

May you and yours have a happy day.

I will be gardening and sewing and my hubby says he wants to go out to a favorite lunch spot.

Then back to sewing in my sunny happy place.

Hope to see you sewing along with the happy 
Pineapple Day Quilters!

Oh, happy day ... :-)