Quilting Tutorials — Curves

2021 Mystery Quilt Along Month 3 This month we’ll be setting the sewing machine aside and cutting lots of curves! Don’t let them scare you. We’ll post a couple different options of methods to sew them next month so that you can find one that works best for you. If you are just joining us, we have designed a free modern mystery quilt along and invite you to join us this year! Each month we’ll be posting another step in the process and by the end of the year, you’ll have a completed quilt. If you need month two, you...

This year is wrapping up quick and we are now on Block 10. If you missed block 9, you can get instructions for it here: Online Quilting Bee Block 9 For more information, you can head to the main Quilt Along webpage and it will outline all the details. Scroll down below the video for fabric requirements. We are working on curves this week! Quilters sew lots and lots of straight lines, but often times curves can be very intimidating.  They don’t need to be though! Use the tips we teach this week to improve or tackle curves once and for all.  After you...

I used to avoid curves in any quilting project because I could never get them to line up correctly, especially the little ones. Things would always be screwy. I even tried buying fancy feet, but nothing worked. I decided I was doomed to only sewing straight lines for the rest of my life, until one day, everything changed. I saw a new technique I had never tried before. I don’t even remember what I was googling, but it was definitely quilting related. This technique was so simple and changed the way I looked at curves, and I can now happily...