Thank you, Marcella. I had only filed away "use silk thread with caution". I've appliquéd many blocks with silk thread and it causes me no little grief to suspect they might collapse. Polly
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Oct 10, 2009
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Got it. Makes sense. Thanks.
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Thank you for all your help. I now have access to a 'Pickle Christmas Tree Ornament' that I'll get for her. I haven't found a PP pattern for a pickle as of yet, but I'll keep looking. I thought I might make-up a PP one and 'frame it' Probably about a 6 " finished square....that she could hang in her kitchen. ((I've found pp'ed patterns for: apple, peach, pear, tomato, etc, but NO Pickle as of yet.
Butterfly (and yes, she would hang it there: )
This is a link to the Christmas Pickle pattern. It was a paper piecing class that I took at my LQS several months ago. The center portions of the block are paper pieced and then are surrounded by 5 smaller pinwheel blocks. I've chosen to do mine in blue as opposed to the (apparently) typical green.
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The whole thing is definitely out of my comfort zone. I'm generally a much more 'ordered' person when it come to quilting. I supposed because so much of the rest of my life is definitely NOT ordered!
Kim in NJ
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:35:50 -0500, AuntK wrote (in article ):
Gorgeous quilt. I have that pattern and all the fabric for it picked out. Now if I could just get to. It's on my someday list.
How about a single "jar block" with pickles in the jar?
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Just an idea!
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