Curved quilts patterns

A little deja vu never hurt anyone. It's kind of fun, isn't it? That mysterious feeling that maybe you've been here before...

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 …

Guest post from Sharon McConnell sharing tips and tricks for piecing curves in quilting as well as the Classic Curve Ruler to help with cutting accuracy.

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

When it comes to quilt design, we are drawn to dimensionality (such as attic windows and tumbling blocks ), color, and movement . In desig...

The latest issue of Modern by the Yard was just published by Benartex. It’s a free quarterly online magazine published to help promote their fabric collections and it always features lots of …

First, let’s talk about the tools, block pieces, and pinning the curves.

Sewing curves is easy - there I have said it clearly, and I hope you will say that too soon. My approach to sewing curves is captured in that 1:18 minute video. The original post, which sets out a number of tips is here - I am going to assume you will go and have a look. When I was sewing my test Mod Pop blocks, I put together a set of photographs of the various steps as well - go here to take a look at the individual pictures. Here are some additional tips: Be careful not to stretch the…

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…