Wow, Kathy--what an awesome quilt and I LOVE the back!!! Thanks for sharing your story as well as the photos!
Shirley, bling is a great option! I look forward to seeing how you quilt it. Your quilt is so bright and cheery. I LOVE the border!

Shirley your quilt looks great too. As for the quilting - and you know I am an expert here - I think you should keep it a simple as you like because the top is so busy that the quilting will hardly show anyway. If you SID around all the blocks to begin with you will then only have to worry about 8 1/2" at a time from then on. I read in Gyleen's book that she has her tops quilted with a pantograph overall design because anything else will not be worth it as it won't show. It's going to look great on your kitchen wall at Christmas time. Especially with all that bling!

Wowie Zowie, Shirley, what a great quilt! It's loaded with details, so keeping the quilting simple sounds good. Crystals go on after quilting, right? I haven't done those before. I love the border fabric.

Kathy

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Thanks, all, for the nice comments! And in answer to Rita's question, I actually used up almost every scrap, so another would have to be from my uncut stash! MM, I guess I could do that, eh?

It was a lot of fun to make. When I got to the end of the quilt and still had a pile of strips, I just started sewing them together end to end, then cut them into same-size strips, and sewed those together. I was going to make squares alternating with the yellow, but when I saw the whole bunch of them together, realized that they wanted to be sewn together into one big piece!

So I have only a piece or two of scraps left. (except for the scraps from the 2011 BOM- I have a bag of those. Not sure what I'll do with those yet)

Kathy

Oooooooooo I love the colors. It looks great.

Can't say much about quilting but have to say that you have just made a great Christmas kitchen pineapple quilt--bring on the bling!

About a year ago I made this pineapple quilt top, and some of you might have seen it on a blog I did about it at that time. It was put aside because of other projects and I just wanted to take a breather for a while during this summer. I've enjoyed reading along with and seeing all of your marvelous quilts inspired by Gyleen's fabulous TQS episode, book, and ruler. I plan to add a black Susan Cleveland-type prairie point edge to it to balance the 2 black borders framing the cheeries. So far, I'm thinking of quilting something circular...maybe a cross-section of a pineapple slice, or little pineapples in the black areas. I'm not wild about how the 9 tiny center squares turned out in the center blocks so I bought some gorgeous Swarovski square crystal buttons in clear, medium green and black to see how they will look (gasp! lol!) in covering up those uneven tiny squares. (Remember, I love bling and glitz...and it is a kitchen Christmas wall quilt!) I would really appreciate any help from you about the quilting. I use my walking foot a lot (another gasp!) because it's been about 5 years since I did FMQ and I need to get up to speed again. Oh, and I'll probably add tiny red, green, and white Swarovski crystals on all those tiny red dots in the black fabric.

Thanks for any help you can give me.
Hugs,
Shirley

Kathy, I love your quilt, and the backing. It's a great block to make isn't it? Will you do another?

Kathy, your quilt is beautiful and so creative! Love how you used up more scraps for the backing. What a clever quilter you are! Thanx for sharing.
Cheers,
Shirley

Cheers to you Kathy! Love it. Thanks for Sharing.

Kathy - Your quilt is beautiful! Isn't it amazing what we can get out of our stash? I really love your backing.

Nancy

It's wonderful Kathy!!

Kathy, I love your pineapple quilt. I am in love with that technique. I have a top waiting for its borders but other projects and responsibilities keep jumping in line ahead of it. One of these days I will get to it. Your lovely quilt is very motivating.

Too cool! Love the backing too!