Bryan and Catherine's Chic Kisses Wedding Quilt Finish

I stopped showing progress pictures just before finishing my son and d-i-l's wedding quilt so that they would be able to see it first in person.  Then summer arrived and I stopped blogging for the summer.

Here is a picture of the finished quilt top before quilting:

Here's a closeup of the flower quilting I did using a paper pantograph called Flander's Poppies by Hermione Agee.

And here's the entire quilt.  I rounded the corners of the quilt to echo the corner rings and bound it with one of the brightest fabrics from the collection.

Here's another picture with me peeking out from behind.

And I did get the label made and sewn on before the wedding......my least favourite part of quilt making.

Here's a picture of the quilt on their bed.

And one of their favourite photos from their backyard covid wedding!

It feels kind of nice not to have a quilt with a deadline looming so I am free to sew whatever I want now.

B & C's Wedding Quilt, Chic Kisses, First Border Row

Today I sewed the first border row of blocks to the quilt.  The two blocks on the right show how the corner will look, but aren't attached yet.  Just ignore the project showing out from under the edges on the design wall.

I will sew a dark grey strip all around the quilt edges which will join the scallops and make it look more like a dark frame.  Happy with the progress!

Chic Kisses for Bryan and Catherine

I am still working away on this quilt for my son and d-i-l to be.  I have finished the centre part of the quilt made of 36 blocks.  There are 28 left to go.  This picture was taken with the lights on.

And this picture was taken with the lights off so the colours are a bit more natural.

I plan to get the rest of the blocks made in May and then quilt it in June.

More Chic Kisses Sewing

I know it's a little repetitive, but that's what happens when you are making a quilt.  You need a certain number of blocks so you just keep making them over and over again until you're done.  Today I made four more which brings me to ten of the twenty required for the next step in the wedding quilt for my son and d-i-l to be.

I took this picture upstairs in more natural light so the colours are more true.  Maybe tomorrow I will concentrate on doing some more quilting on the quilt I currently have in the frame.

Wedding Quilt Progress and Leader-Ender Half-Square Triangles

I made the sixth of twenty quarter blocks required for the next step of my son and d-i-l's Chic Kisses quilt today.

I also had to cut more half-square triangle pairs to use as leader-enders.  I only have 48 more to sew together which means I've already sewn together 352 hst's.  Shortly I will have all the hst's sewn together and will have to come up with a new idea of what to sew for leader-enders.  Maybe I can find something in one of my UFO's.

Wedding Quilt Progress

Last week I finally finished embroidering the quilt label for my daughter and s-i-l's Double Wedding Ring quilt.  The smallest text was embroidered with only one thread and I found it harder to embroider small text than large.

I have now appliqued it to the back of their quilt.

I have also made a hanging sleeve in two sections and I am hand sewing it to the back of the quilt.

I have also made five more quarter blocks towards my son and d-i-l to be's Chic Kisses quilt.  I had been calling this quilt a Pickle Dish quilt, but since the arcs are made with wedges and not triangles, I should probably be calling it a Gypsy Kisses quilt.

We are actively engaging in social distancing by staying home so there should be lots more sewing progress made in the next couple of weeks as we do our bit to prevent the spread of COVID-19. 

Progress on B & C's Wedding Quilt

Bryan likes the blocks with darker grey melons.

Catherine prefers the melons and the rest of the background to be the same light grey fabric.

In order for both of them to get what they want, we have decided that the centre of the quilt will just use light grey background fabric, but the melons in the final row of the quilt will be dark grey which will give the quilt a nice border.

All the fans require trimming, 8 of 128 done....

Here are the first eight fans with melons and corner points attached.

Here they are trimmed with the triangle tips added and ready to sew together.

And now, here is the first complete block of four.

Oops!  That's not right, I should have attached the blocks so they made a circle, not a flower.  But that's OK, it can be fixed.  I'll just add the next two blocks on one side and two on the other to create two circles.  Half way there.

The first two circles of blocks completed.

Fourteen more to go!

Update on Bryan and Catherine's Wedding Quilt

I have been doing a lot of sewing, 1,300 seams to be exact.  I sewed 128 triplets, 64 beginning and ending with teal/turquoise fabric and 64 beginning and ending with peachy fabric.

Then I sewed the remaining 512 pairs into 256 quads.

And then the 256 quads into 128 octets(?).  Here are the triplets and octets waiting to be sewn into elevenses(?).

And here are the final 128 fans, 64 starting and ending with teal/turquoise and 64 starting and ending with peachy fabric.  (Actually, there are 65 of each, one extra in case of a sewing emergency.)

The fabrics are a little brighter and more colourful combined together than I had imagined.  Here are some of the fans laid out with their matching triangle ends on top of the background fabric.

I like it, but I think I will have to check if Bryan and Catherine like where this quilt is headed before I continue.....

Bryan and Catherine's Wedding Quilt

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.