How amazing is this pineapple quilt that Lisa made!?! I love the variety of blues that she used throughout the quilt.

The pineapple block is a paper piecing block by Amber at Gigi’s Thimbles. You can find it here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/183374968/pineapple-block-paper-piecing-patterns

Lisa requested custom quilting on this one, and suggested a block design in the pineapple block itself, which was a great idea! Quilts like this can be tricky to pick out a custom quilting design. It would take far too long to custom quilt something in each strip.

I used Natural White Omni thread from Superior Threads and bamboo batting from Winline Textiles. Lisa loves bamboo in all her quilts!! I’m the same, once I started using bamboo I don’t want anything else.

You can see in the sashing I did a freehand ribbon candy design and an arched square in the corner posts.

For the block design I used Patricia Ritter’s and my Viola - Block #3 which is part of a collection that we designed together awhile ago. It’s available at: https://www.urbanelementz.com/quilting-designs/viola-block-3.html to check out the other beautiful Viola blocks and edge to edge design, go to: https://www.urbanelementz.com/catalogsearch/result/?q=Viola

I loved that this block design filled the space pretty good.

In the thin mini border I freehand quilted circles to help frame the quilt. It’s also an excellent way to quilt thinner boarders. I quilted my feathered swirl in the outside border, which goes really great with the block design that I quilted. If you’re interested in learning how to quilt freemotion, check out my Quilting It Freemotion course. Go to: https://www.quiltingit.com/quilting-it-freemotion-course