Sewing Curved Seams ***
 

Below are some photos of step by step how to sew curved seams. I used the drunkards path acrylic templates in this, because it is what I have. However, any curve seams you are sewing...
You will need to find and snip the center of each piece to match up. DON'T forget the pins on the side. I find this to be a very important part. I have tried these other ways, however this is the way that goes so smooth for me. I would say accurate cutting is the key and acrylic templates give us that. And from what I hear so do the "GO" cutters. I hope this helps all of you who have found this to be a huge struggle like I previously did.
There are 15 photos for this so please be patient while I load all of them.

Thank you for this tut. Need to get over my fear of curves. You made it easy. Your tutorial is very easy to understand

Thank you, You're welcome. I thought it would be good to do it like this, because sometimes when we are doing things we like to be able to do it with the photos to make sure we are on track. lol Glad it helped you. Once you get to going on it, you will probably be hooked.

Thank you for the tutorial :D:D:D

great tut

Very nice tutorial. Thanks for sharing.

What a great tutorial, thank you for posting, i was just wondering about this!

Thanks for the excellent tutorial.

thank you for taking the time to put this together for everyone

Very good tute, thanks!

Wow!! Thank you SO MUCH!! I'm going to try it :D

You've made the impossible look so do-able!! I'm going to try it. Thanks for helping me feel courageous.

wonderful tut...you make it look easy :)

Great tutorial! I know some people have a fear of curved seams, you make it look real easy. :thumbup:

Thank you for taking the time to make this tut. It is easy to follow.

Thanks for the tutorial. I must try this sometime soon.

Thanks for the tutorial, very helpful.:)

ditto

It just hapens that I started a Winner's Bouquet yesterday,
And I've got hundreds of these to make (maybe a slight exaggeration). This will help me to be faster than a speeding bullet,able to climb tall buildings in a single...oh, oops, I got carried away again. Sorry!
Thanks for the tutorial! :oops:

That's really easy to follow!!!

Great tute!

Thanks so much for this tute. I am getting ready to do a small drunkards path for my Sylvia's bridal sampler and was very unsure of how to proceed. Now I know!!

Thanks for the great tutorial. Curved piecing is on my "to learn" list. Every year I have a short list of things I want to learn during the year, this is on the list for this year.

Your tutorial was clear and easy to understand. I bookmarked it so I can refresh my mind when I start that project.
Thank you.

Thank you so much. Have been trying to get up enough gumption to try curves.

Tammy - this is great! Thank you so much for doing this tute. Looks like you have helped others as well. I just love this Board :) {{{{HUGS}}}}}} Suebee

Thanks for the tutorial. I have the Go cutter and the drunkards path die, but have not tried it yet due to fear of curves. This makes it seem easy to do.

You are certainly welcome everyone! Glad I could help put fears to rest over the curved seams. It really is as easy as it looks. You will be whipping through them in not time.

thanks for the tut.

never tried curves myself.

Thanks for the tute....I've always been afraid of sewing curves....now it's less threatening. (lol)

Thanks for the tute. Will bookmark and give it a try!!

Great photos...thanks for your help...

Wow - I think I might actually try this - thank you so much the instructions!

great step by step thanks

Thanks so much. They are actually sewn like sewing sleeves in a blouse.

Nice! Thanks!

Another very helpful tip!!! Thanks :thumbup: cheryl

Great tutorial! I want to try this.

Thanks so much, just what I needed and your instructions are wonderfully clear.

Thank-you for sharing your method!

Great tutorial - a lot of work in preparing I imagine.

I went to a craft show the other week and saw a different method being used. They were "selling" a foot with a cut off toe so the needle was very close to the front edge of the clear plastic foot.

The demonstrated idea seemed very simple indeed, but I wonder how difficult it would be not to stetch the top fabric.

What they did was (without any pins) line up the two pieces at the beginning of the curve and then pin it with needle down. Then proceeded to sew the seam by lifting the top fabric with your left hand (the advantage of the short foot) so you could clearly see the point of the needle entering the fabrics. Then with that left hand steer the top fabric so it matched the edge of the bottom fabric as it went under the presser foot at the needle insertion point. All the time, steering the bottom fabric with the right hand until the end of the seam was reached.

This method achieved a perfect result by the demonstrator but I wonder if the left hand stretched the top fabric the bottom would be shy of top when the end of the seam was reached.

Must give this some practise.

Have you heard of this method before? If it works without stretching the top fabric it would be much easier than pinning.