Thread: Help - I have a curve

Been there done that but with a different pattern. I read in a Bargello book that reversing sides from which you sew your strips will eliminate the curves. As for your pickle, I would press the hack out of your finished pieces, pin them together, sew and then press some more. That is what I did. Maybe not the proper way to do it but it worked. Good luck. Also, I became very fond of spray starch. I over starch everything because it helps me manouver strips and reduce curves. Again probably not the proper way of doing it but I go with what works for me.

Your rows look beautiful even with the curve. It looks like the white on white is a less dense fabric than the boxes? Since you know that the white needs easing in, put the white on the bottom next to the feed dogs and sew two strips together. After sewing the two strips together iron and measure the two strips together and see if that has corrected the curve enough. If it has, sew the strips together in sets of two with the white strip always on the bottom and alternating sewing from the top down and the bottom up to further minimize curving in all the twosies. Re-evaluate at each stage of construction.
OR--You could also mist your strips and block them straight before proceeding. Find a large table and cover it with a surface you can pin to and draw marks of where you want the strip to measure. Mist a strip and pin it with non rust pins to the outline and let it dry in that position. This may correct the curve but make sure before MISTING that you don't have any bleeder fabrics.
OR--You could replace the white with a denser fabric but even then that doesn't guarantee you won't have the same problem and would be a heck of a lot of work!!!
OR--maybe someone else will give you a better idea, good luck.

I don't think it is a cutting problem.

Try spraying with starch and ironing again. Instead of putting your fabric across the ironing board horizontially (end to end) try putting it vertically (across the width? - small part of your board, the way you have them now. If I have long stips to iron I do it that way with much better results, seems like it takes a little longer (having to move it) but I also get less curve than if I lay it all out on the board and iron the length of the strip. Hope this helps you. BTW your quilt is beautiful.