The Big Pineapple quilt

After making a Pineapple mini quilt and runner recently, I decided to make a lap sized quilt using a cute pattern by Jackie Padesky.

I already had plenty of yellow and green fabrics so just needed some white for the background. 

Last week, I finished sewing the yellow pineapple blocks.

Then got the quilt pin basted ready for quilting.

I found the perfect yellow backing for the quilt to match the bright colour of the pineapples.

For the quilting, I did a simple cross hatch which kind of resembled the texture of a pineapple and then bound it in some of the teal green. 

And because I live in Australia and we have a great love for "Big Things" this has now been renamed "The Big Pineapple Quilt" in honour of the iconic Pineapple at Nambour in Queensland.

Above photo courtesy of @carrose on IG

Linking up with Fabric Tuesday @ Quiltstory. 

This was on my FAL Q1 list for this year so linking up with the 2016 FAL team.

Kirsten.