pineapple...

I've been in a real slump creatively lately. A dear friend advised that I should just start and make anything without over-thinking the design part of the project. Looking through my images of vintage quilts for inspiration, I found this one which sparked a little something...

It is a pineapple quilt probably from the 1800's. What is interesting about this one is that it is made of a single striped fabric on muslin. The patterned fabric has faded so that the backgrounds merge. It looks like someone has drawn crosshatches with a red pen. I've started making blocks in batches of six with a bin of scrap white-based shirting strips. Some of the strips are cut on grain and others wildly off grain. They are not finished but here are the first blocks with four rounds completed. I'm hoping for a similar drawn effect as in the antique quilt but with more colors. Am not sure that it is successful at this stage but the process is fun and it feels good to be sewing again...