The curves are done!

I put the finishing touches on a quilt I’d been working on — or on and off! — for a couple of months. Of course, the holidays were in there, so I’ll blame the slow progress on that. 😉 This was something I made to practice a technique (Pieceliqué) I’d learned from Sharon Schamber many years ago and more or less forgotten about. Refreshing my memory was fun, and I hope I’ll remember to explore this more in the future. It’s not just for Drunkard’s Path or circular designs; it can be used for any curves, including anything resembling an S-curve.

Once I’d pieced the blocks, I decided to use the quilt to practice ruler work quilting on my domestic machine (Bernina 790Pro). Ruler work on a domestic machine is a bit tricky, since you have to move the fabric while holding the ruler in place over the very spot that you’re moving. I’m not very good at it, but the practice did help a little. I echoed the circular shapes, both inside and outside of the circles, and then did a lot of straight lines to connect the circles and to fill the outer triangular sections. Oh, and I added a few feathers inside the circles, too. In the outer sections, I just randomly spaced straight lines, rather than using a “set” distance between lines.

The finished quilt measures about 30″ square.