I have been enjoying working on a quilt that I first posted about in May. I had pieced a few blocks back then but hadn’t gotten any further….
Last week, I started making more blocks and adding them to the design wall, but it just didn’t look right. I finally realized that the curves all had to go in the same direction. Much better……
I have had a lot of fun piecing the blocks and have found them to be fairly easy to do. I was trying to figure out how to describe the piecing process, but decided instead to do a video. Here goes…..
I taped this several times to pick which one I liked best and realized that in one of them, my daughter’s dog (Marley) was photo-bombing me!!…..
After each curve was stitched, I spritzed it with water and then ironed it flat.
The final step was to cut the block down to a 7-1/2 inch square. There were a few that weren’t quite big enough, but I was able to add bits of fabric here and there to make it work.
I then put them all up on the wall…..
As I looked it over, I realized that there were a few blocks that stood out too much, such as this gold one…..
I pulled two such blocks and added another stripe in a different fabric to tone them down.
Finally, I knew that I wanted to add some accent pieces across the quilt so started adding small strips of red fabrics….
Then I noticed that there were bits of red color on my ironing board cover…..
Uh-oh….something isn’t color-fast!!!! The offending fabric was a piece that I had bought in India and was one of my favorites……
….but I couldn’t afford to leave it in the quilt, so I cut them out and replaced with other fabrics.
At this point, I need to decide what borders to use. I am thinking about using larger blocks that are also pieced in curves but to have the curves moving around the quilt.
More fun to follow…….
3 thoughts on “Piecing those pesky curves”
These blocks are looking great. I am so pleased you have decided to work on this one again. Shame about the red fabric but good that you found out in time. It was interesting watching your video, too.
You are doing a good job! Lovely!