Last March I made a small pineapple quilt - can you call it a quilt if it only measures 23 x 30cm? Anyway, it hangs on the wall in the lounge. Since then I have been wanting to make a big one. Our Monday Modern Ugly Brown challenge provided the opportunity. Poor old brown has a bad rep. When quilts with brown in them get shared, often the comment 'that's a nice brown' is made - like all browns are ugly. So someone came up with the idea of Monday Modern Ugly Brown challenge. Liz and her daughter went Spotlight shopping for some ugly brown and we were challenged with using our eighth in something quilted.
I used a 100% wool batting and hand quilted it. I used diagonal 3" crosshatch for the pineapple and tied where the lines intersected because you know how pineapples aren't smooth skinned. I did lines 1.5" apart on the leaves. And 3" regular crosshatching on the brown.
I found this island-style backing at The Fabric Store in Otara. It is a nice deep brown and appropriately island-ish for a pineapple quilt.
Being wool and hand quilted, this quilt is super snuggly.
Original quilt - Sassafras Lane Designs.
Looks good,You have a good stash of brown fabric obviously. I think it all depends on the shade of brown used, and maybe we all have bad memories of those oranges and browns from the 70's we got dressed in.
ReplyDeleteLove that! I'm admiring your hand quilting too! Very nice.
ReplyDeleteLove that handquilting Karyn.
ReplyDelete