I have started making a Pickle Dish Quilt using
Sew Kind of Wonderful's Chic Kisses pattern for my son Bryan and his fiance Catherine's wedding next July. This is the first time that I will be making a quilt using a complete fabric line. I bought a half yard bundle of Little Bee fabric by Lily and Loom when it was on sale without a specific project in mind and not long after that they announced their engagement. I had to do quite a bit of figuring out how I was going to use the fabric with the pattern so that everything would work out. (Possibly why you usually decide what pattern you are going to make and then buy the fabric.....) I worked out that I would use the six peachy fabrics and the six turquoise/teal fabrics to make the wedges for the pickle dishes and I would use the four chartreuse fabrics and the four primrose fabrics for the triangular ends of the wedges.
I was able to squeak 107 to 110 wedges out of each half yard of fabric which left me about 60 wedges short of each colour but luckily I had also purchased an extra yard of the darkest peach fabric for binding and quite a few yards of the darkest teal fabric for backing so I was able to cut the remaining wedges from these fabrics. When I say "squeak" I really mean it. Here is all that was left of a half yard after 110 wedges were cut: the selvedges and a few slivers off of the first and last wedges which were discarded and a 3" square remnant of fabric.
Here are all the 1408 wedges cut (plus a few extra just to be sure). The wedges will be sewn together in groups of 11 to make the pickle dish arcs. I need 128 arcs for the quilt so I saved out 128 wedges and know that I can pair up the remaining wedges and sew them together into at lest 645 pairs.
Here are my first 100 or so pairs sewn up, 545 to go.....
And here are 645 plus pairs all sewn up and needing to be snipped apart.
When they were all snipped, I only discovered one pair which had been sewn together with the wrong colour on top. A quick rip and a resew fixed that.
Now the next step is to sew each of the 128 saved single wedges to a pair to make 128 triplets. I will then sew together the remaining pairs of wedges into groups of four and then into groups of eight and the final step of making the arcs will be to sew a group of eight and a triplet together into 128 groups of eleven. In theory I should then have 64 arcs beginning and ending in turquoise fabric and 64 arcs beginning and ending in peach fabric.
