Help with Pineapple patchwork pattern?

I'm getting in a right pickle flicking between the three pictures and looking at what you need to change in the 2nd two to make the first, so I decided to just look at the first and work out what is where!

It looks to me as if it's a pineapple block with three rounds of logs added to the centre square. The centre square is white, then it has black logs added to the side, then white across the corners, repeated 3 times, the square is approximately twice the size of the logs.

The 2nd picture has more logs and it looks like the diagonal log is added first, if you were just to make the centre square white on this picture and merge it with the first lot of white triangles and then not do so many rounds, it has 5 then you'd have the first quilt.

The 3rd picture is confusing as it has a couple of vertical logs the same colour as the diagonal logs, but if you changed them to cream, then the cream and pink would be black and the red would be white!

Cheers Anne

I can't get in to this one either. They both want me to sign in??????????????? Gen

I am helpless, Gen, and hopeless when it comes to uploading photos. I tried Picasa and simply don't have the time to figure it out. The Facebook photo system is a lot easier and more intuitive. I have selected the option that says it will allow anyone to see the photos "even if they aren't on Facebook," so I don't know what else I can do.

Signing up for FB is a truly innocuous process -- you don't ever have to use it and it hasn't generated any spam for me, and I've been on there a couple of months, I guess. But if you don't want to do that for whatever reason, I don't know what else to suggest.

ep

Thank you so much for your help, Anne. I regard this pattern as the pinnacle of my quilting goals :-) so it will be a while before I start on it. I have filed your advice away with the photo and patterns.

Thanks again, ep

Howdy!

P> I can't get in to this one either. They both want me to sign

Atta girl, Sandy. I really wanted to find a great pineapple pattern for EP but everything I found was too plain or too impossible. Thank you so much. I've been busy with a really silly Grandmother of the Bride thing / bling. I just glued several hundred sparkly stones to a pair of flip flops for our granddaughter to wear when her pretty bride shoes get to be miserable. Being grandmother of the bride doesn't have many mandates. Showing up and staying awake are the most important ones. Polly

I love pineapple patterns, and keep reminding myself to do a throw for myself, in larger size blocks than the 3.0" finished ones I have done so far ;)

Ginger in CA

Couldn't open this. But a pineapple is really just a log cabin with bells on. You do a round of logs. Then you add a triangle to each corner. Then another round of logs, etc. Where a log cabin would have half dark and half light logs, a pineapple has all the same value logs and contrasting value in the corners.

So bottom l>From the day I first started to read about quilting, the quilt in the first

I understand now where the blocks begin and end -- thanks for such a plain explanation Roberta! And from others' posts and responses on FB I'm realizing that what I'm aiming for is the right proportions. Between these two concepts and the several patterns I have in books here, I think your advice to try a few blocks is good.

It think four blocks would be enough to give me an idea of whether the proportions are right, as an overview. It always amazes me how looking at a single block is so different from seeing the rhythm of (mostly) identical blocks assembled together. If the proportions aren't what I want, then it's a wall-hanging or a pillow. I think this is one of my favorite things about quilting right now -- seeing the rhythm emerge in pictures and in my own quilts. I think this is why I gravitate toward traditional patchwork patterns where the fabric prints are simple or non-existent, and don't distract from the overall rhythm. It's also why I couldn't see where the edges of the blocks were in this picture -- it was submerged in the rhythm of the whole, and I just don't have enough experience (and *no* experience with Log Cabin) to analyze the pattern.

The book on Log Cabin I have calls the Pineapple the most complex Log Cabin. That's fine with me. I think I'll just keep honing my skills with piecing and patching and aim for this particular Pineapple Log Cabin.I don't aspire to do curves or applique anytime soon. I think Baltimore quilts are just about the most beautiful things I've ever seen in textiles, but I can't imagine wanting to do one myself.

Thanks again, ep

Stop the presses. An RCTQ participant just FB-messaged me a computer-generated layout of exactly the pattern I want, which she obviously based on a careful study of the photo I posted, and is preparing a single block for me as well.

The generosity of this group continues to amaze me.

ep