Late March, I took a ‘create fabric using curved piecing’ workshop at the last minute. I’ve never tried to sew curves (intentionally) before and this seemed like it might be new and exciting.

There were 4 techniques for ‘creating fabric’ and we started right in with the curved piecing. Choose 4 fabrics; layer them and freehand cut 3 curves. Shuffle them and sew your blocks. Stack and repeat cutting 3 more freehand curves the opposite direction; then shuffle and piece together. So here’s my first block. Oops! It came out perfect. I don’t think I could have matched the corners so well if I tried! Weird; I was supposed to offset the pieces and to make it more interesting. To remedy this, it was suggested that I add in a fifth fabric. Hmm, the other three blocks are slightly more fun with their blue/with stripes. Now do I make a throw quilt or 4 pillows? The peanut gallery says pillows!

For the second technique, cut a wider length of fabric basically in half and sew a long wedge of a second fabric in between the two. Now, slice up the layers into various widths, shuffle and piece them back together. Again, I found my blues to be boring, until I added thin red stripes. This could have been a skirt (albeit a short one!), but it makes a nifty pillow.

The third technique is a quilt block called Tessellating Windmills. I really like this one as a large pillow and will think more about making a full or queen quilt. Fun!

I really didn’t quite figure out the last technique for making heart blocks. Mine was all wonky and not in a good way. I pressed the heck out of it and it lies almost flat. Oh well.

Funny, these all seemed destined for pillows. At least they are finished! 🙂