Last week I shared my pineapple blocks from a workshop with Gyleen Fitzgerald.
The pattern called for straight set blocks but I wanted on point blocks.
The only options I could find online were not what my mind's eye saw.
I'm sharing this so I can remember for future pineapple blocks.
I decided to use the pineapple chunks block with some changes.
The center is 3.5 inches.
I made half blocks instead of whole blocks cut in half.
This gave me a chance to use smaller strips and fewer triangles of my focus fabric.
For the smaller four corners I sewed strips of 10, 8, and 6 inches with a half triangle of focus fabric.
See below.
For the half block setting triangles I trimmed them like the chunk block.
Center block with three rows added on two sides.
I like to hand draw my ideas.
At first I thought I needed to make a whole block and cut it in half.
After drawing it I saw that making a half block fit better.
Below is one of the four corners after the first trim.
Below some triangles ready for a trim.
The focus triangles had to be trimmed for each round.
They were cut from 3.5 inch squares.
There is a way to cut them smaller but I was not in the mood for figuring it out.
This one is ready for another row.
Below is my first attempt at a side triangle.
I made a regular block but added an extra row to get the correct size.
I'm leaving it in the quilt to remember my journey with this quilt.
See how the large square meets the inner square lines
for trimming the triangle point.
This trim is just like the first trim on the regular pineapple block.
Each time the side strips are added the corner is trimmed so the triangle has a place.
After sewing the corner triangles and pressing there is one last trim.
I used my 15 inch square with a diagonal line in the center to make the last cut.
It was 1/4 in below the center of the large square.
I saved the cut off centers and used 4 of them on the corner triangles.
Below the pineapples are finished.
Except for trimming the corners. ;-)
First border.
The focus fabric used in all the block centers is also the final border.
That is 5 inches by WOF. I was able to cut 4 strips from the piece.
I sewed all the strips together with a straight seam because I didn't want to lose any
length from the strips.
I sewed the sides first. There was only enough border fabric left for the bottom and top
- but not the corners.
I had a 3.5 inch strip left, so I played with a couple of designs.
One corner block used the 3.5 inch square with two 2 inch strips.
The other used the 3.5 inch square with half square triangles.
I liked the first block. It was quicker to make and used a smaller strip of the pink fabric.
Next step - making a backing, finding batting, and machine quilting it.
The pink is going to be the binding.
See you in a week.
