Help please - how do you do this?
#1
Help please - how do you do this?
I want to make blocks that have some curved pieces but no templates. I want to be able to randonly make curves on some pieces and straight regular seams on others. Like a log cabin gone wrong. Sort of like in this picture. Can this be done and if so could someone tell me how to do it? I have tried but it just doesn't work. Any tips??[ATTACH=CONFIG]394058[/ATTACH]
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I have done gentle curves pieced together and I cut the piece and the background pieces stacked so that you are cutting the same curve in each piece. I don't know if that will work for what you want to do.
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I have a book on this (that I can't locate right now ). Basically, you cut 2 pieces of fabric in an oversize square or rectangle of the piece you are aiming for, stack them, both right side up, cut a gentle curve with a rotary cutter, then swap the 2 fabrics, sew, and trim down to your target patch size. You get 2 patches. I'll continue to look for that book!
ETA: I can't find my copy, but this is the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Curves...s=curved+quilt
ETA: I can't find my copy, but this is the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Curves...s=curved+quilt
Last edited by PaperPrincess; 02-09-2013 at 07:47 AM.
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[QUOTE=PaperPrincess;5849229]I have a book on this (that I can't locate right now ). Basically, you cut 2 pieces of fabric in an oversize square or rectangle of the piece you are aiming for, stack them, both right side up, cut a gentle curve with a rotary cutter, then swap the 2 fabrics, sew, and trim down to your target patch size. You get 2 patches. I'll continue to look for that book!
ETA: I can't find my copy, but this is the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Curves...s=curved+quilt[/QUOTE
Thank you, I will try and find this book because it still just doesn't work for me. I laid 2 pieces of fabric together right sides up and then put them together and sewed but they will not lay flat. The middle puckers and forms a pleat. I am only doing a gentle curve so I must be missing something........or maybe just not too bright this morning. I am going to master this somehow. LOL
ETA: I can't find my copy, but this is the book:
http://www.amazon.com/Cutting-Curves...s=curved+quilt[/QUOTE
Thank you, I will try and find this book because it still just doesn't work for me. I laid 2 pieces of fabric together right sides up and then put them together and sewed but they will not lay flat. The middle puckers and forms a pleat. I am only doing a gentle curve so I must be missing something........or maybe just not too bright this morning. I am going to master this somehow. LOL
#6
You need to put registration marks on the edges of each piece. Lay the two curves you want to sew together beside each other, back side up, and mark a line from one to the other across the cut in several places (kind of like marking notches when cutting sleeve and shoulder pieces of a blouse). When you pin the two curved pieces together to sew them, match up the marked lines. Pinning fairly close together helps, too. Curves need to be eased, even gentle ones.
#7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clgWlrdSClA
Thank you everyone! Guess I need a visual to be able to figure things out. But look at this....I can do it!!!!! Yeah. [ATTACH=CONFIG]394071[/ATTACH]Maybe this video will help anyone else trying to figure this out. Hope so. I was not laying the fabrics out correctly until this lit a light bulb in my head.
Thank you all, off to start my blocks now.
Thank you everyone! Guess I need a visual to be able to figure things out. But look at this....I can do it!!!!! Yeah. [ATTACH=CONFIG]394071[/ATTACH]Maybe this video will help anyone else trying to figure this out. Hope so. I was not laying the fabrics out correctly until this lit a light bulb in my head.
Thank you all, off to start my blocks now.
#8
There is a presser foot for curves call the Curve Master. It is available several places; here is an Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...l_8vbcpccewl_e
If you watch the youtube video demo it looks amazing. I bought one, but then I adopted a baby, and somehow haven't found time to test it (the foot, that is :-) . I hope you find something that works for you.
Darren
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...l_8vbcpccewl_e
If you watch the youtube video demo it looks amazing. I bought one, but then I adopted a baby, and somehow haven't found time to test it (the foot, that is :-) . I hope you find something that works for you.
Darren
#9
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clgWlrdSClA
Thank you everyone! Guess I need a visual to be able to figure things out. But look at this....I can do it!!!!! Yeah. [ATTACH=CONFIG]394071[/ATTACH]Maybe this video will help anyone else trying to figure this out. Hope so. I was not laying the fabrics out correctly until this lit a light bulb in my head.
Thank you all, off to start my blocks now.
Thank you everyone! Guess I need a visual to be able to figure things out. But look at this....I can do it!!!!! Yeah. [ATTACH=CONFIG]394071[/ATTACH]Maybe this video will help anyone else trying to figure this out. Hope so. I was not laying the fabrics out correctly until this lit a light bulb in my head.
Thank you all, off to start my blocks now.
#10
OK...now I just have to show you - I can do this. Used up some scrap pieces of fabric and this is what I got. Special thank you to PaperPrincess because you had me looking for that book and I found the video that finally made sense to me. Here it is...[ATTACH=CONFIG]394078[/ATTACH]Look at those curves!!!!!!!!!!!!
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