Good clear tutorial, may i suggest a camera at an angle which we can see your needle. Thank you for the inspiration and building our confidence....ps. I love the quilt behind you...is there a pattern?
Thanks Denise! I typically reserve the needle shot for my payed courses. The quilt behind me is Wavelength, and you can find the pattern in my book, Modern Rainbow.
Thanks so much for this tutorial! Just thinking, If you use a much smaller rotary blade (do they sell them much smaller?) you could introduce a lot more play in the lines so they won't be as smooth, if that's what you're going for.
Curious why you didn't snip the seam allowance area. In garments, this is what we do for sewing curves like shoulder seams. Also, when you have a quilt made of many curved blocks, could you topstitch with a wide meandering pattern, or do you have to topstitch with narrow spaces to keep all of the blocks flat? Not sure if you understand my question. The curvy quilts that I've seen, the maker topstitched with lines that were about 1" apart. I'm not a big fan of this since it makes the quilt stiff and it looks and feels like a mover's blanket. LOL
Hi, how can I sew an improv curve which has a angle that slopes down almost into a 90 degree angle? I notice you have some of these in your design but your tutorial didn't address the more challenging bits.
do you make little snips in the seam allowance when giving very curvy seams the final pressing? Thanks for the video and the blog post that goes with it, btw :) It is inspiring and activating (meaning I want to get busy quilting)
Hey there! I cannot remember exactly. I've done it in the past, I just can't remember doing it on this one. Sorry! By the way, I love that term "activating". Thanks for your comment!
Camera needs to be behind the sewing machine. When you say "you can see..." we can't because the area you want us to see is totally blocked by your hands. What is the difference between pucker and fold. They look the same in your hand.
I'm sorry but how can you "show' us how to sew the seam when your camera was so far away from the machine, needle and fabric. Your hand was in front of every stitch. Crazy. Your designs were interesting and I wanted to see more. all I got was your voice
Wish I could have seen when you were sewing the curves without the pins. That is the most difficult part. Placement of the camera in front of the machine exposing the needle would have made the video SUPER. Your explanations as you progressed were excellent until you reached the unpinned part. Not being able to view the process was disappointing.