Sewing curved quilt pieces

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

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 …

Yesterday on QUILTsocial we looked at 10 ways to use Northcott’s Stonehenge fabrics in your quilts and today my box of Stonehenge Elements fabrics arrived!! Just look at these fabrics – so yummy and rich looking!! I have some ideas about what I want to do with these fabrics but…

Thank you for all of your comments regarding both the foundation paper pieced Colorwheel Mini Quilt and the Making Waves Pillow Cover ....

Quick curved seams tutorial from A Bright Corner

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Watch how easy it is to sew curves!

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

Making Waves - Tutorial: Cutting and Sewing Free Hand Curves

Curve piecing can be tricky, and many quilters have problems getting everything to match up just right. In this step-by-step video, Kelly Hanson demonstrates a fun and easy approach to sewing curves by using a washable glue stick.

From Red Pepper Quilts

Today on QUILTsocial Christine Baker explores 3 ways to machine applique circles onto a quilt and demonstrates the method using fusible interfacing.

These 4 steps to sewing curves will have you a pro in no time! A companion tutorial for the Evolve Pattern, but applicable to all curves.

You may have to go out with a bunch of different guys before you decide who you really like. I promised to introduce you to a new guy every month, and see whether you hit it off with any of them. A couple of introductory remarks. First, I am at heart a piecer, not a fuser, not a screen-printer, not a fabric painter, not a hand-stitcher. This prejudice will be reflected in many of the guys I introduce you to. But if something I suggest as a piecing technique makes you think of a neat design…

Quilt along with us. Jill's Recipe influenced by Karla Alexander's Stack a New Deck. 5 fabrics in a tight range of values from a medium ...

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…

Karla Alexander is one of my favorite quilt artists. I have gotten to know her thru Greenbaum's Quilted Forest. She does fabulous pattern...

3D and Curved Quilt Piecing Made Easy