Drunkard's Path - SEW EASY CURVED PATCHWORK! 

Hi Donna, I was looking for a way to put a circle in the middle of a quilt. I thought about the drunkard path and checked out lots of tutorials on RU-vid, but they all seemed to want to use pins. It looked really difficult. I watched so many videos but was uninspired until I saw yours. I was able to make my own template and included the notches. By following your instructions I matched up the notches as I sewed along. Just magical and I achieved the result I wanted. Thank you for the very clear and simple instructions you give. I have learnt a lot from you.

I don’t know why, but I could literally sit here and watch that quilting machine do it’s thing all day.

Watching Donna makes my day!!!

Let's just appreciate that her nails almost always match the project she's working on 😍💅 also makes curves a lot less intimidating!

Donna I can’t tell you what it means to me to finish work after a hard week on a Friday and find you’ve posted a new video. You’re such an inspiration and the videos are always beautifully shot.

I love the name garden path instead of drunkards path. With the pretty fabrics you used it's a great name for your quilt

Hi mem I like your quilting, I learn to sew in 1987 but I have never did this its so beautiful.

I cannot believe the give away quilt today is the one I have wanted to make for my granddaughter! She loved the greens and purples and I can't wait to enter the drawing. I've read & have the full set of Anne of Green Gables & loved the books. I've visited the area in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island & also have gone to the home of the author's (Lucy Maud Montgomery) aunt & uncle where she lived at one time. The lake of shining waters was outside her bedroom window. I've visited her gravesite in Cavendish, where every summer, it is totally covered with beautiful flowers. Amazing area to visit if given the chance.

I love your videos. You are a pleasure to watch and I always learn something from you.

Toutes plus belles les une que les autre. Beau travail. Merci de France jordan.

I Love this quilt and your tutorial😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍 Thank you 😊

Thank you very much for this video. You explain everything quite perfectly.

Thanks Donna! Would also love to see you make a Storm at Sea quilt. Please?! Hugs from Michigan

I love your videos. You’re an amazing teacher. I always feel like “I can do this” after watching one of your tutorials. Thank you so much!

انا عربيه واعتز باللغة العربية ومن أجل هذا لن اكتب غيرها حتي لو علمت كل لغات العالم اريد أن أقول لك انتي فنانه وعندك حس فني وابداعي وفقك الله احببت طريقتك في الشرح بطريقه احترافيه والتجميع في الاخر انتي مدهشه وفنانه كانك بترسمي لوحه فنيه ولها قيمه وقامه ماشاء الله تبارك الله احسن الخالقين

I love your channel! The way you explain things makes them seem so much easier than I have tried to mske them! I also enjoy knowing you are from GP. We lived down there (Rogue Valley)for almost 8 years. (Medford. Phoenix, Medford, Talent) before moving up here (NW of Salem)My niece actually just moved from GP to Tx and one of my daughters lives in Winston) I am completely self taught. I started with pillow cases then curtains. A couple Christmases ago I made everyone in my family their own quilt. The starting plan was for each person to have a personalized one. But, sadly that's not how things worked out. I was sewing at my kitchen table right after returning from buying a TON of fabric. I was SO EXCITED! I had just found almost everything I needed to make the 9 quilts needed for my husband, son, 4 daughters, their 2 boyfriends. and my grandson. I had the cord to the machine stretched between the kitchen counter and the table when someone let my dogs in. Luna is 1/2 German Shepherd and a big sweet girl. As she came running in she ran under the cord for my sewing machine and pulled it off the table! I did one of those loud high pitched gasps and she stopped in he tracks. We both stood there staring at my sewing machine as it lay on the kitchen floor in a bunch of pieces. Me with my hand over my mouth and tears streaming down my face. Luna with her normally tall and proud ears laying back on her head and her tail tucked between her legs. I couldn't be mad at her when she looked up at me with those big brown heartbreakingly sad eyes. It was my fault after all. I just didn't know how I was going to sew all those quilts without my sewing machine! That April afternoon started my "quilt quest of 2020" Besides 2020 being the year of Covid it also marked many other things for our family. Our 4th (of 5 kids) graduated from college but because of Covid nobody saw her walk across the stage with all her cords etc and accept her diploma and congratulations for all her accomplishments. We lost many dear friends and family (none to covid) But, as a country we were all told to stay home. and if we had to go out wear masks and stay 6ft away from eachother. I have always loved blankets and big sweaters. I've told my kids that I feel like they are like wrapping myself up in a hug and if they are from a person even better. So the quilts for Christmas were going to be my way of hugging my family from a distance. I began the search for a machine It ended up with me buying 4 used, borrowing 1, before buying one that finally arrived in December! I then OVERCOMPLICATED the ones I made for my oldest daughter, and grandson ( I decided that the one I made for her could be the "family one"), They got thrirs the week after Christmas but it meant I spent a lot if sleepless nights and did a lot of hand quilting, I then did the ones for the other 4 kids ( all adults) and decided that the boyfriend wasn't getting one. My poor husband STILL hasn't gotten his! I have had 18 months of major health crisis and even though I watch quilting videos every day I sadly haven't been able to sit down at my machine ( I even have a sewing room now) to work on it. My plan is to start working a little every day to make my sewing room more accessable for me and get it done. Sorry for such a long post but I think ANNE would approve 😉I just wanted you ro know I appreciate you and to tell others that it diesnt HAVE to be complicated to be beautiful. Take a step back, look at it and see if maybe just maybe you can take what looks like you are tying yourself in knots to do, break it down and male it simple. 🤯😏😃🙌🪡🧵✂️📐📏💟🔲🔳 Blessings!

I get so excited when I see a new Jordan Fabrics vid in my inbox. After doing the double wedding ring quilt, this one looks like a piece of cake. Pun intended lol! I love the colors and of course, you always make it look so easy. Always a bonus when I guess the quilting thread color! Fabulous job as always and kudos to your incredible cameraman or camerawoman! 👏🏻

Your projects are all beautiful and I love the way you explain.Thanks a lot.I am from Argentina.My name Is Irene

you have very nice materials.working is both easy and enjoyable.

I fricking love your videos! I not only watch them to learn but if I can't sleep, I watch them to relax a bit. Your voice is calm and the processe of making something is very satisfying, specially when is done so well! I would love to try quilting but we're I live quilting cotton (or wherever other names it has) is not a thing really. You can find some fabrics but it is not advertise as such, it's just coincidence. And my sewing machine keeps acting up, so frustrating. Anyway I love your videos! And I always get amazed by your nails designs as a fellow nail enthusiast! In that case I do have like 500 nail polish bottles plus tools. I guess nail stuff is more common around the world 😆

Donna your hair looks gorgeous as this light color. It suits you so well. Love this tutorial 💖

So love this quilt

Donna, I’m glad that I’m not the only one who walks around with either one slipper or shoe on while I’m sewing. 🥳

Thank you so much for such for your great instruction on the drunkard pattern. I too have no attempted it because of the curves. You have given me confidence!

Good working 👍💯 good job very very good working

Drunkard’s Path was the first quilt I pieced...I had it hand quilted by a group of ladies that I had known most of my life. One of the ladies had been my Sunday school teacher for years. Sadly, my quilt was the last she quilted with the group as she passed the day after my quilt was finished. I asked the ladies to sign their name and I’ve embroidered their name on the quilt. Love the Drunkard’s Path pattern, but it can be a booger to piece, but Donna’s instructions make it so much easier.

Love watching your videos

I love this 👍👍👍

Omg, I had to do a double take and chuckle at your ONE SHOE!! It made me laugh because it reminded me of my husband, who every time he gets up from watching TV, only has one shoe because our puppy always runs away with the other one, LOL!!! 😂🤣

It is a beautiful job! Congratulations!!

I LOVE all your videos!! Very informative

This is going to be my next project. Im very new to sewing, and this looks like fun.

Just love this quilt! Well i like all the quilts you make Donna. Fitting the two pieces reminds me of my dressmaking days ie vintage when you had to ease the fabric to fit. Thank you so much for sharing. 🌻

I love Anne of Green Gable's, I have family back east they live very close. 🇨🇦🌻🙏

Love the matte manicure!

a 28mm works well when cutting small spaces - curves are my favorite quilts to make!

That was amazing! Very helpful and easy to follow 👏👏

I loved the Anne books too, they were mum's from when she was a young girl

Fabulous!!!

Love watching all your pieces I'm a beginner, Della Vigil

Love the colors 😍 and the pattern great choice

I made the Drunkard's path quilt out of all scraps from my stash and it is really colorful and easier than I thought it would be.

Nailed the thread color again! LOL

Another great video! Thank you 🙏🏽

Love this quilt thanks so much

I love this you always give the best easy to follow directions!

Of all the quilters you’re the most pleasant and I love all your patterns. You’re such an inspiration.

You're right, that is a lot easier method than the pinning (and then rip out and do again) method I learned in my beginner's class in 2019! Your quilt is lovely and it is such a treat to hear you relate the story of Anne as I happen to be from Prince Edward Island:)

Love it and love your tutorials, thank you.

I am very happy to watch your video, it helped me a lot. Thank you

Sehr schön 😊habe mir jetzt den Stoff bestellt. LG Simone

Wow, great instructions and great camera job.🌸🧵

It is a beautiful job! Congratulations!

Thanx. You have shown it in a easy way.

Nuts, I was dead asleep when this premiered!! Sent this video to my mother. Anne of Green Gables has always been her favorite book! 😊💕

Thanks for giving me the confidence to attempt curves. ❤️

Donna, I LOVE YOUR NEW HAIR COLOR. It makes you look even YOUNGER!

Beautiful. Makes it look easy.

Love the fabric! I'm from the land of Anne - Prince Edward Island. Great video.

Working on it now. Thank you so much Donna!!!

Nice to watch your new project. I never miss everytime you post a new video.

I love watching the long arm do the quilting. It is so relaxing! Nails are beautiful this week, as usual.

My very first quilt was a drunkard’s path. Fortunately I had some dressmaking skills that served me well! ♥️♥️♥️♥️

You always inspire, inform, share your knowledge and of course entertain. You are a gift to all us quilters, thank you.

Gracias por regalarnos tus conocimientos,Dios te bendiga ❤️🙏🌹

I have used the sandpaper dots for years - I find that putting two or three in strategic places keeps the template from sliding and the rotating mat for cutting circle quilts works great!

Beautiful! Love it!

What gorgeous fabric. Thank you

Show more patterns please and I like your videos🤩

Très beau, comme toujours !

I am no where ready for the double wedding ring quilt no matter how much I want to do it, HOWEVER I think I could pull this one off. I love that fabric too! Thank you so much Donna!!! I'm almost done with my first quilt!

I love your videos.

Thank you! I love Anne

Hi Donna, I so enjoy watching your videos, you give me a sense of encouragement that I may make your quilts, after watching you. Thanks so much !! Linda

I love this!! One of my favorite stories, too. The colors are gorgeous.

Great video. Those are better templates than others I’ve seen.

I love the Drunkard’s Pathway pattern, Donna. My mother made a quilt using blue and yellow and it was lovely. It was not a scrappy quilt like she did (4 daughters). She did not have the great measuring tools and machines but I loved her quilts and I miss her so much. Thank you for using this lovely pattern.

Merci pour la démonstration ou tutoriel. Bonne journée

Always love Donna's videos, even with one shoe on and one shoe off, LOL You're such a Joy! Pat

first quilt I ever made was a drunkards path quilt for my oldest child when he graduated high school two years ago. I did get an acrylic template set from another company. I can see how the notches in this larger set help make things easier for those scared of the process. I didn't know to be scared I guess you could say. I just did it. Being my first quilt make, I wasn't worried about perfect. And it came out great. Two years later, I can't tell you were any problems were. I've forgotten. I think I only had two, maybe three of the 4.5 inch blocks that had micro pleats in them I didn't find and fix before the 'duck it all' phase hit. My kiddo loves it. I now plan on quilts with patterns that let me sew then cut shapes to make "magic". Those I find easiest. But starting with a smaller drunkards path made me fearless in trying to find the reasons for so many quilt patterns. 😀

i was just at a drunkards path color work class... grin. good timing!

Now you sewing those curves is just great! Thank you!!!

Thank you very much for your instructions. I have a pattern I want to make who has curves. That helped a LOT.

Beatiful thank you.

Using the circles and kids fabric it would be a GREAT tic tac toe board! Make some X’s and O’s pillows and it would be a perfect gift for a grandchild or toddler!!! ON MY LIST!!! 😍

Very nice love colors

I was surprised that you didnt take the opportunity to trim off those grrr! Pinked edges - enemy number one for accurate piecing. 😮

Wow that's fantastic

Thank You So Much!!! The Drunkards Path has been on my bucket list for most of my life, my Grandma did one in red and white back in the '60's, before she died, and I've always wanted to do one too. You have answered a lot of questions for me. Thank You, Donna!!!

You make it look so easy!!

I never thought I could ever make a Drunkard's Path block. I hate curves. I purchased the template you demonstrated, & I have to tell you, it worked like a charm! You helped me conquer my fear of the Drunkard's Path block. Thank you SEW much!!

I love that line of fabric, and you did such a wonderful job with the curved pattern. I never much cared for this patter before, but after seeing your video of how to sew it together, it doesn't look so intimidating. Tks so much Donna for all of your tutorials, the way you explain the pattern and the different layouts of it, makes it look so different. Look so forward to your tutorials.

Amazing it looks awesome. I am from India and I am your biggest fan. Hope I could learn this from you one day.

That template set makes all the difference in the world if you like the Drunkards Path pattern. A lot less frustration when sewing the curve.

Love your videos. Cheers!

I just bought the drunkards path set. I’m excited to break them in.

This is a beautiful Quilt! Just love the fabric color combination!!

What??! Donna has a list of projects not attempted? So sweet to share your glorious skills with us mere experienced beginners. Love this!

I did it!!! I finally got my Drunkard's Path blocks done. They aren't all perfect, but I can trim them!!!

I loved all the Anne books too and I’m sure she would love taking this quilt on one of her many adventures. Beautiful as always Donna. A real treat for a Friday evening. Thank you so much for bringing some calm and beauty to our day.