By Judith on April 2, 2018 2 Comments (Leave comment)
Happy April to you all!
Well despite it being ‘Spring’ with sweet crocuses in full bloom in my garden, today I drove through snow showers with 2 degrees registered on my dashboard! Brrrrrrr!
So let’s leave the present for now, and think ahead 1 week instead, when hopefully the weather will be much better as my new term of classes start up again after the Easter break!
For a while now I’ve been threatening exhorting my ladies to confront their fears and give curved piecing a try!
So we’ve decided to get our ‘big girl’ pants on and jump in to this exciting new technique!
I will be teaching the ‘no pin’ method of curved piecing, as well as how to trim a drunkard’s path unit to achieve different effects.
Small Projects:
For those who want to make a smaller project, I have designed and written several patterns.
‘Ripples’ Cushion:
19.5″ x 19.5″
In this cushion you can use up lots of your colourful scraps, alternate with just a few colours, or use a different fabric in each ‘ripple’ as I have done here.
The cute ditsy fabrics I’ve used here are ‘Katie Jane’ by Makower, which were leftovers from this quilt project.
There are 5 ‘bauble’ shapes in this runner, but you could easily add more or less to suit your table. Wouldn’t this be lovely in Christmas fabrics for a festive table dressing!
The pattern includes instructions on how to make & attach bias binding, and 4 complimentary mats.
Wow! That was a long post! Thank you for sticking with all my ‘curves’!
If you would like to learn how to make drunkard’s path units (& all of these projects) & have a lot of fun along the way, then why not join in with our other crazy creatives and register for our class starting w/c 9th April. More details on classes available here.