Throw Me a Curve!

Sewing by Numbers! 

Much as I dislike the tedium of foundation piecing, I have to concede that sometimes it really is worth the effort. This delightful top was a charity shop find which Jean M and her daughter asked me to quilt. The piecing is absolutely perfect and it is such a charming design. What a shame that someone went to all this trouble to make it and it ended up unfinished in a sale. 


It would have been a crime to quilt an edge to edge design over it. So I loaded it onto the frame just to baste it, then took it off and stitched in the ditch on the Bernina. Then I put it back on the frame and quilted some simple meandering loopy 'bubbles' in the background. 

Then I went back to my own foundation pieced project (based on the Halo Quilt design). I made another 12 'Flying Geese Arcs' and then had to pick out all this foundation paper. 

The next job was to cut the background pieces to set them into blocks. I found the perfect template for the outer curve, in a set I already had, which made it a lot easier. 

I got the hang of the curved piecing quite quickly and really enjoyed that part today. The instruction for squaring up the blocks was very accurate and I now have 28 of these pretty blocks to add to the 8  Dresden Bloom blocks I made last year. 

This is where I am going to deviate from the original  design and now I am working on these minute little Flying Geese spacers.

I just can't resist playing with the little scraps!


Happy Quilting Everyone!

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