So yes my day began at 5am....no, noone else in the house was awake, just me.
In the attempt to try and go back to sleep I started mentally planning my Black & White quilt swap...which then lead to thinking about skills I needed to learn...which then lead to curves.....aaaand yes I am now wide awake searching Drunkards path quilts on Google!!!
According to Instagram these were purchased via Massdrop in August last year! High time they were used and curves are mastered I think!
Excuse the superlight pic...afternoon sun :)
Always choose the fabric first....done!
Now there are quite a few tutorials, and initially I was looking at glue basting....but then I saw that the master piecer of ANY crazy tricky block had a tutorial that showcased a technique void of pins or glue!!
Red Pepper Quilts, one of my favourite blogs and a super nice lady (Rita let me use her Hummingbird block for a Bee at no extra charge ) has a great pic filled tute that shows you exactly how she does it.
So while you're supposed to be cooking dinner....run downstairs to the garage and sew a block LOLOLOL
I must be learning something....test on not so favourite fabric first!
It was relatively stress free, shorten the stitch, go slowly and voila!!
About 1/8" out at the finishing end....I might've stretched the large piece just a smidge
Next attempt....starch the background.......beginning and ends meet beautifully...YAY!
I pressed the seams to the darker fabric and there was no resistance or puckering regardless of the orientation of the curve...bonus!
And although both came up slightly smaller than the expected 7 1/2" unfinished block... I'm pretty happy with the result
The curved seams match beautifully ....so starching may be helpful but not a game changer, at least not at this size....the 3 1/2" template could be a whole different ball game?!
So the next step when I'm not supposed to be sewing something else???.....is to get some more Drunk blocks under my belt...drinking may or may not be recommended after a few...
I will let you know.......
Looking great so far!
ReplyDeleteI know some people swear by the no-pins approach, but I love my pins and cannot let them go.
I enjoyed reading this post! I too don't use pins, and it all seems to work out ok. Look forward to seeing more of these drunk blocks!
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