"curves" lap quilt top finished
10-10-2010, 07:49 AM
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oh instructions. well i made it up but there are quilt blocks made like this. it is easy.
just take a square for background, take another and fold it like a triangle-place it in one corner of your bkgrd square, baste the raw edges or pin in place.
i made four of them and sewed together two at a time to make a "four patch" block.
then take the fold of the added "triangle" piece and fold it back in a curve and stitch in place. Just play around.
Mexican star block is one i know of that uses this "curve" and many more that look difficult but aren't.
good luck.
close up of mexican star
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...26835859QpplXb
see? you can just tack the center of the curve down instead of stitching the whole curve.
or
http://www.womenfolk.com/about/lisa.htm
and this book does the same
http://www.treadleart.com/Books%2020...Patchwork.html
just take a square for background, take another and fold it like a triangle-place it in one corner of your bkgrd square, baste the raw edges or pin in place.
i made four of them and sewed together two at a time to make a "four patch" block.
then take the fold of the added "triangle" piece and fold it back in a curve and stitch in place. Just play around.
Mexican star block is one i know of that uses this "curve" and many more that look difficult but aren't.
good luck.
close up of mexican star
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/...26835859QpplXb
see? you can just tack the center of the curve down instead of stitching the whole curve.
or
http://www.womenfolk.com/about/lisa.htm
and this book does the same
http://www.treadleart.com/Books%2020...Patchwork.html
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