{"id":5196,"date":"2023-11-19T13:35:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T21:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=5196"},"modified":"2023-11-19T13:35:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T21:35:22","slug":"curves-curves-and-more-curves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2023\/11\/19\/curves-curves-and-more-curves\/","title":{"rendered":"Curves, curves and more curves"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I was at our local guild’s retreat last summer a cute little pattern, Mini Moons,<\/a> caught my eye. It reminded me of a class I’d taken years ago from Sharon Schamber, who is the most amazing quilter and who came up with a technique called Pieceliqu\u00e9 — kind of a cross between piecing and appliqu\u00e9. I already had her book of the same name (it’s apparently out of print) and had practiced the technique for all sorts of curves about twenty years ago. Time to dust off the cobwebs!<\/p>\n

The pattern used a similar technique, with a few modifications, but I decided to go back to the way I’d done it in the past. I dug out my stencil brush, freezer paper, and Elmer’s school glue and then raided my stash to find some fabric I’d bought a few years ago and never used. I put together some half-square triangles for the background and other smaller ones for the inserted circles and had lots of fun putting them together. Stitching those curves was so much more accurate with the built-in laser in my Bernina 790Pro!<\/p>\n

Once the blocks were made, I had to decide how to set them into a quilt top. The first two options are almost identical, with just the reversal of the backgrounds. Each of these gives a diamond-shaped background design.<\/p>\n

\"Red,<\/a>\"Red,<\/a><\/p>\n

But it was the third setting that I finally decided upon. I really like the “pathways” that tie the blocks together.
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\"Red,<\/a><\/p>\n

Now I’m playing a waiting game, as I don’t have enough of the red to make a little outer border, and I also need more of the black for the binding. At least, that’s the current plan. Unfortunately, these fabrics are no longer current, so I had to scout out a couple of sources of older fabrics and am now awaiting deliveries. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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It reminded me of a class I’d taken years ago from Sharon Schamber, who is the most amazing quilter and who came up with a technique called Pieceliqu\u00e9 — kind of a cross between piecing and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":"","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}},"categories":[4,3,299],"tags":[215,202,217],"class_list":{"0":"post-5196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-applique","7":"category-piecing","8":"category-quilting","9":"tag-applique-2","10":"tag-bernina","11":"tag-piecing-2","12":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-1lO","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5236,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/01\/04\/the-curves-are-done\/","url_meta":{"origin":5196,"position":0},"title":"The curves are done!","author":"Sandy","date":"January 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I put the finishing touches on a quilt I'd been working on -- or on and off! -- for a couple of months. 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