Low Volume Pineapple Quilt Finished (Part 2)

It's all done and here are some fun specs about this low volume pineapple quilt.  Part One on how it was made is HERE.

Using the Creative Grids Pineapple tool - each block is a finished 6".  There are 9 blocks across and 9 rows down - making a nice lap quilt 53" x 53"  after squaring up.  All the corner pieces are in beige to make little 'beige' diamonds. 

Doing some math: this lap quilt has 81 blocks.  Each block has 21 pieces of fabric.  That totals 1,701 pieces of fabric! 

Using low volume for all the 'rounds' in this block kept things simple.  Any and all fabric was cut to the sizes needed without regard to color. If you have a pile of low volume fabric this is one fun quilt to make.

A word of caution however, since there is so much trimming it is easy to get a little lazy with the rotary cutter and go faster than you should.  As soon as I thought "I got this trimming down" - I sliced my finger. 

Cream dimple dot minky backs the quilt and I used Aurifil 50wt. #2000 throughout. Quilting is a wavy line stitch that goes on the horizontal and vertical seams - as well as through the middles and corners (see pink lines).  Since the blocks are so small you don't need to chalk or mark anything - just do it by eye.

So that's it - a traditional Pineapple quilt made a modern way. With origins in Spain, called 'pina' after the pinecone - the pineapple became the universal symbol of warmth and hospitality when it reached America during colonial times.  Again, for links, pixs and directions how to make this quilt - Part One here can be your guide.

Materials:

Low volume fabric

Warm & White batting

Cream dimple dot minky from Hawthorne Supply Co.

Aurifil 50 wt. thread #2000

Creative Grids Standard Pineapple Trim Tool

Size: 53" x 53"

February 2020