{"id":53,"date":"2005-09-04T05:26:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-04T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/how-to-sew-a-curve-in-3-easy-lessons\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2024-03-30T00:34:07","slug":"how-to-sew-a-curve-in-3-easy-lessons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/how-to-sew-a-curve-in-3-easy-lessons\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Sew a Curve in 3 Easy Lessons"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent time this week catching up to my students on my blocks. I had the pieces to the Drunkard’s Path blocks cut for weeks, but couldn’t seem to get them together. I pinned and pinned and pinned and pinned and pinned and something didn’t seem right. I couldn’t figure out what it was and I couldn’t sew the things with so many pins. Per chance, I picked up Ruth McDowell’s Piecing<\/em> book. If you don’t have this book, get it. It is the best.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I read the bits about sewing curves and found the problem. Clipping! I had forgotten to clip the concave part of the curve. I think I was so caught up in having problems with the block when I was a beginner and trying to make the Drunkard’s Path that I couldn’t think straight.<\/p>\n

I sewed all the little blocks together then played with the layout for a few days and came up with the following layouts:<\/p>\n

\"Drunkard's<\/a>
Drunkard’s Path<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Good graphic look on this one.<\/p>\n

\"Drunkard's<\/a>
Drunkard’s Path #2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I really like the way the middle circle comes forward in this design.<\/p>\n

\"Drunkard's<\/a>
Drunkard’s Path #4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Not sure what the heck this is supposed to be, but it obviously doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

\"Drunkard's<\/a>
Drunkard’s Path #5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I like the way the pinwheel type design shows up. This is my second favorite.<\/p>\n

\"Drunkard's<\/a>
Drunkard’s Path #6<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Again good graphic look, but the way the circles go off the side don’t appeal to me as much as the other layouts.<\/p>\n

\"Drunkard's<\/a>
Drunkard’s Path #7<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is supposed to be an X, but the X doesn’t show up, because I used three colors (2 for the background) instead of just two total.<\/p>\n

Until I finally decided on the design below. I did have a hard time deciding between this and the pinwheels:<\/p>\n

\"Drunkard's<\/a>
Drunkard’s Path Final<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This exercise, again, shows how great blocks are. I could make a whole quilt with this block and do each one with a different layout. I think that there is so much that can be done with block designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent time this week catching up to my students on my blocks. I had the pieces to the Drunkard’s Path blocks cut for weeks, but couldn’t seem to get them together. I pinned and pinned and pinned and pinned and pinned and something didn’t seem right. I couldn’t figure out what it was and … Continue reading “How to Sew a Curve in 3 Easy Lessons”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[368],"tags":[349,467,321,132,142],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-368","tag-blocks","tag-handbag-sampler","tag-lessonsteaching","tag-quilt-class","tag-sampler-quilt-class"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62201,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/62201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}