Curved piecing

Ahhhh---Spring Break! At first, we had planned to go to Arizona to see my parents. But that didn't work out. So, we decided to have break at home this year. Then, Papa Pea thought we'd remodel a bathroom this week. But the weather is so crappy that it would be...

Break away from the traditional quilting rules with improvisational curved piecing! Embrace spontaneity and explore free-form curves and circles.

Sewing curved pieces or strips usually scares off most quilters but with these simple key concepts the results are amazing every time.

Curved piecing can be a daunting task, but one well worth the effort! I've recently decided to immerse myself in tutorials for sewing curves–and there are some excellent resources!

use a glue stick to baste curved fabric pieces together before sewing perfect curves. Learn how to sew curves perfectly every time with this easy quilting tutorial filled with quilting tips & tricks! A curved piecing quilting project is a great next challenge for your patchwork & quilting sewing ideas!

Karla Alexander is one of my favorite quilt artists. I have gotten to know her thru Greenbaum's Quilted Forest. She does fabulous patterns and she has some wonderful rulers to go with her patterns. One of her patterns is called Inferno ...I've been waiting for just the right time to start this lovely quilt and last weekend was it. I went to a 3 day quilt retreat on the Oregon Coast...oh, what fun it was. I stayed up till the wee hours of the morning sewing and having great conversation with…

I'm sure there are many ways to do this but a friend asked me to show how I do it. So Caroll, here you go. You'll need two strips of fabric about 1.5" to 2" longer and wider than you want them to be in the end, depending on the deepness of your curves. Step 1: Lay one strip right side up on your cutting mat along one of the vertical lines. The light strip with writing is the bottom piece and I like it to be a little longer than the top piece so that I can see it when I overlap it with the…

I’ll be honest – when I first started quilting, curves gave me the willies. It’s silly, because while I wasn’t particularly good at it, I’ve sewn clothing. I’ve …

[Updated on February 3, 2020.] Many of you loved my quilt pattern “Victorian Fans“. I made this curved paper piecing tutorial with step-by-step photos to show you how to put together those beautiful blocks. You can feature your favorite prints on the bottom of the fans, then use a contrasting, darker fabric for the tips. …

My improv pieced curve quilt is finished. In my bid to practice sewing pieced curves, I got out a bunch of 5" squares that I had left over from a previous project and took to them with my rotary cutter. It was a little scary at the beginning, but I'm so glad that I made it... and finished it. I learned a lot about curved piecing along the way - the right ways of doing it, and the wrong. After watching a bunch of YouTube videos, it seems that I sewed my curves together the 'wrong' way. I had…