Happy Sunday friends. I'm very happy to share my scrappy rainbowy finished Pickle Wedge quilt. It's been a very fun quilt to put together as well as a great learning experience.
I had always planned on hand quilting this with some big stitches using lovely Aurifil 12wt thread... but I then opted for speed and machine free motion quilted it. I used Hobbs wool batting in the squishy centre. I tend to use cotton or cotton/bamboo blend battings normally, so this was trickier (slipperier) to quilt and manhandle through my machine.
Speaking of machine, I got my big Bernina B710 out to do the quilting. It's got the wider throat which made it easier to work.
When making my picklewedge quilt, I used mainly solids from my stash. No colour was turned away - even brown! I don't tend to use brown in my projects, but it was welcome in this one.
I pieced the arcs using the foundation paper piecing method, using freezer paper (fold back and sew beside the lines). For this whole quilt, I only used 4 traced out arc wedge templates. For the whole thing! A little big of freezer paper went a long way.
When piecing the blocks, I used my bobbin ends so the quilt is made up with a wide variety of colours.
I originally had it layed out in a 6 x 8 block configuration, but it was too long and seemed out of proportion. I unpicked the bottom row, added an extra block and turned it into a 7 x 7 configuration. Much better!
It's a perfect size for a double bed. Both kids have double beds in their rooms so they can fight over it when winter truly arrives. Or I might just use it on the couch myself. Haha who knows!
Your quilt is lovely Anorina.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Lou :)
DeleteLovely colourful finish, I love it. xx
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Lin. It was certainly a bright quilt to work on :)
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I think it is very colorful and pretty! nicely done.
ReplyDeleteThanks very much Karen. It's certainly a happy quilt.
DeleteWhat a beauty! I don't use much brown in my projects either, but in this quilt the color seems to "ground" the other bright colors and it works so well! I'd really like to see a close up of how you use the freezer paper to make these blocks!
ReplyDeleteThanks Kathy. Brown for the win (well in this case).
DeleteI’ll go through my camera role and see if I have any old photos of the foundation piecing. It’s an easy process, especially for this type of block that doesn’t have a lot of pieces.
Fantastic bright quilt.
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Lifeontheblock
I really like how colourful your Picklewedge quilt is.
ReplyDeleteIt looks great on the bed.
Super finish, I love all this bright colour!
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