Today’s Quilter – September 2019

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ESSENTIAL GUIDE lsewing pieced curves

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n ourexplorationofcurvedpiecingwehavelookedat basicsewingtechniques

andalsohowtodrawtemplates.Inthisissue,wewillgoa stepfurtherand

demonstratehowyoucancreatemorecomplexresults.Manywell-known

blocksthathavea reputationforbeingdiculthaveacquiredthisreputationas

theyaremadewithsectionsthatarepiecedbeforethecurvedshapesarecutout

andcombinedtogether.Thispreliminarypiecingis thefinalareawewillpractise

inourexplorationofcurvedpiecing.Wewillstartwithsomesimpleeectsthat

areeasytoachieve,andthenworktowardseectssuchascurvedFlyingGeese

units.Theprinciplesofthismonth’sEssentialGuidewillhelpyoumake‘tricky’

blocks,suchasthoseshowninFig 1. Wewillalsolookat thepracticalityof

reversingtemplatestocreatemirrorimagedesigns.Usingreflectionsymmetryin

thiswaycanfurtherexpandyourblockrepertoire. We will look at symmetry in its

various forms in a future Essential Guide.

PIECED CURVED SHAPES

Fig 1

ThisstunningquiltcalledNewYorkBeautyBrigade,

byJoAvery,appearedin Issue 13 ofToday’sQuilter.

It featuresstrikingNewYorkBeautyblocks,which

havea centralcurvedsectionmadeupofpieced

triangles created with Foundation paper piecing

Grandmother’s Fan

Somecomplex

blocks using curves

New York Beauty

Double Wedding Ring

Pickle Dish

Curved Flying Geese