Monday, January 29, 2018

Pickle Dish Update: 12 Blocks

Twelve Pickle Dish blocks are done - Whoo-hoo! One third of the way...

The blocks made so far are for Rows 5 and 6, so they're at the bottom of my design wall. It's hard to get a good photo because of the space in my sewing room.

Because of all the bias curved edges I'm only cutting the background pieces for one block at a time so they don't get stretched or distorted. Tracing the templates, cutting the background, removing the papers from the arcs, and assembling each block takes a little less than an hour.

Last week's blocks were Row 5, Blocks 1 thru 4. You can see how the arcs make rings of each color, with the coral arcs around the outside.

The blocks are about 1/8" oversized and they'll get squared up and trimmed down before I sew them together. I find that no matter how careful I am when I sew complicated curved blocks, they always come out slightly wonky. Having that little extra to square them up is super helpful.

I'm hoping I can get a few more blocks sewn this week, but I have other priorities requiring my attention, so we'll see what I can get done.

Link ups:
Small Quilts and Doll Quilts
Em's Scrapbag
Love Laugh Quilt

5 comments:

  1. Nice blocks. Only an hour to put together? (after the arcs are made?) That doesn't seem too bad to me.

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  2. I think it is the color scheme that makes your husband think of Dr Seuss when he sees the pickle dish blocks. A lot of the earlier Dr Seuss books were done with a limited color palate, with primary colors and black. Love the blocks. I don't know if I will ever get that far down on my Bucket List.

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  3. 1/3 of the way done. I like your curves but still a lot of sewing to do.

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  4. I am enjoying your progress. I too would want to have extra and square up, things just get out of whack a bit with curves!

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