{"id":4318,"date":"2020-10-10T17:56:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=4318"},"modified":"2020-10-10T17:56:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T00:56:14","slug":"curved-piecing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2020\/10\/10\/curved-piecing\/","title":{"rendered":"Curved piecing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"curved<\/a>I took a few days off from working on my clamshells and finished another of the online classes<\/a> I’ve been enjoying. This one gave techniques on designing curved blocks from traditional ones and then piecing them. I didn’t design my own block, since one was included in the lesson, \u00a0and I limited myself to using fabrics from my stash. I think a few of my choices could have been better, but overall I’m not unhappy with the result.
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I took a few days off from working on my clamshells and finished another of the online classes I’ve been enjoying. This one gave techniques on designing curved blocks from traditional ones and then piecing them. I didn’t design my own block, since one was included in the lesson, \u00a0and I limited myself to using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,299],"tags":[200,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-4318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-piecing","7":"category-quilting","8":"tag-classes","9":"tag-piecing-2","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-17E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4150,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/25\/finished-wonkiness\/","url_meta":{"origin":4318,"position":0},"title":"Finished wonkiness","author":"Sandy","date":"April 25, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm taking a wonderful series of classes online from Philippa Naylor, and the most recent one was to learn a great technique for curved piecing. 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