Originally Posted by feline fanatic
What is your secret to getting your continuous curves uniform? I seem to be having alot of trouble with those. Some swoop way in and others barely have any curve at all. Do you put a reference mark for the deepest part of the curve like a dot? Or do you simply use the width of the hopping foot? Right now I am trying to do it freehand with no marking.
I did mine all freehand - and believe me they are not all uniform. I got lots better by the end of the quilt - so I'd say practice has more to do with it than anything else. I tried to do a smooth arc and have it be the width of the hopping foot in the middle of each arc. I've also found that moving my body - rather than my arms seems to help make things a bit smoother, too. But mostly it's just practice. I had just finished a large one before this one that was mostly continuous curves, so between that one and this one they gave me plenty of practice.