If you're like me, your head starts to hurt when you start thinking about all the names for quilt blocks. Am I right? One block can be known by three or four names, and then some seem to be cousins and look very similar to each other . . .
One such pair is here: pickle dish and wedding ring. Check these out!
In the traditional pickle dish pattern, it appears that there are triangles in each curved unit, where the wedding ring pattern has -- well, they're not exactly squares, but maybe call 'em parallelograms? (Grin)
At any rate, the pickle dish sure looks cute, but it also looks challenging!
Enter the Accuquilt Block on Board!
Over at Creative Latitudes, Darlene's inner squirrel is pestering her to do all kinds of creative projects; well MY inner squirrel is chasing this die! Once she saw how much easier those blocks would be, she put it on our wish list! The Accuquilt Pickle Dish die is specially designed to cut everything you need for one ten inch block in one pass through the cutter; no templates or special rulers are needed. Eleven different pieces will be cut for you in one "fell swoop."
There are specialized dog ears and seam allowances for easy piecing (boy, do I like the sound of that!). And for those visual peeps like me, the die has screen printed letters so we know which shapes are which!
There are free pattern downloads and step-by-step assembly instructions to get us started on some cute projects like these:
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Hop on over and check out the Pickle Dish Block on Board die . . . and all the other cool products at Accuquilt!
See you soon,
