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"Pineapple Queen" Jane Hall is sharing her quilts with TQS.  Jane's notes on each quilt are shown below.  Star Members can watch Jane in Show 1709: From Pineapples to Photorealism.

1.  Dawn Stars: classic pineapple block, colored to emphasize “windmill” designs. Cherrywood hand-dyed fabrics

2.   Etoile de Bordeaux: inspired by an inlaid wood floor at La Maison de Bordeaux, France

3.  Flying Geese Pineapple: variation on classic block, where the diagonals are identical half-square triangles

4.  Glorious Lights: made for current Houston show, special exhibit for Celebration. All I could think of were skyrockets (!)

5.  Golddust: pineapple variation, inspired by an antique at the Shelbourne Museum. Made with gold and black batiks

6.   Hope: piece made for a 9/11 exhibit. Green is the color of hope, and I quilted feathers into the crazy patched blocks. Label has Emily Dickinson poem about “hope is that thing with feathers…..”

7.   Indigo Lights: pineapple variation, inspired by an antique quilt from the Shelbourne. This was the first one I made, and it’s the cover quilt for one of my books.

8.   Detail of Indigo Lights.

9.   Indigo: Mariner’s Compass design with long skinny points. Original border (which took as much time to piece as the blocks)

10. Detail of Indigo

11. Los Ventos: Mariner’s Compass made with only two fabrics, different dyelots however

12. Nebula: Pineapple variation, one of my series of “colorwash” pineapples. Was a cover quilts for Quilter’s Newsletter

13. Piko Haleakala: my first quilt, hand stitched Hawaiian quilt. Blue Ribbon at an early Houston show

14. Princess Feather and Rising Star: hand appliquéd, hand quilted. Inspired by a quilt in the Newark NH Museum

15. Provence Pineapple: pineapple variation with strips split in half to make very skinny ones. Used some of my stash of French fabrics

16. Shards: off-center pineapple variation. New graphics from changing shapes within the block

17. Sunset Trees: classic pineapple, colored to create interior/secondary designs

18. THE Pineapple: classic pineapple with only one section of each block colored, to create a “real” pineapple. Hand appliquéd leaves

19. The Ultimate Pineapple: inspired by an antique wool quilt that I coveted and couldn’t afford. Made with cotton but antique-looking fabrics. Won blue ribbons everywhere it was shown

20. Vinas Viejas: (Old Vine wine) One of the color wash series, using Cherrywood hand-dyed fabrics, blocks placed in off-center Barn Raising set.