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December 9, 2025
Trilobites, aka Pickle Dish from Elaine Adair Pieces

 


One of our Guild members will be teaching this paper-piecing technique.  While I didn't sign up for her class, I DID get all excited and enthusiastic when I heard about it,  and even ordered a pattern and templates, coming all the way from Australia!  Talk about "squirrel" action!  It took me a while to re-learn paper piecing and discovered I'd done something similar, years ago.  You can see my Mom's real pickle dish to the left of the blocks.  To me, they look like fossil Trilobites.  Many of the quilt block samples I've seen are pieced ...

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November 2, 2025
Pickle Dish - Trial block from Elaine Adair Pieces

 

mmm - a few kinks  needing help ... 

Despite the areas that need improvement, I'm amazed the technique is still in my noggin.  My Add-a-Quarter ruler has disappeared over the years, so that was replaced, then I had to purchase and install a new printer (for copies of pattern),  and my little old Bernina needed an extension table (wonderful  improvement in efficiency).  Trying new things does not always turn out perfectly.  (But don't those outer points look good!)  Not sure why I dislike this layout - those corners seem to be the problem - maybe just a regular square would be better ...

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