Friday, September 22, 2023

Inserting skinny lines into wavy improv landscape type pieces

This is the 3rd post about inserting skinny lines into improv pieces.  These blocks were made with a wavy improv technique that was first taught to me by Jean Wells.

I started with 5 different fabrics to make two pieces.  Two were in shades of lime green;  one was a hand dyed army beige; one was the gold fabric, and the blue was from Marcia Derse's collection.


The first step was to cut the bottom and the next piece with the curved shape.  This was done by laying them on top of each other and cutting the curvy improv line.  After removing the pieces underneath, the pieces were sewn right sides together with a 1/8" seam and 2.0 stitch length.



The piece was pressed and the 3/4" skinny gold line was attached.


This was pressed and trimmed and the next piece was cut to match the curve.


It was sewn, pressed and trimmed, then the next piece was cut to match the curvy seam.


That piece was trimmed and the final piece was trimmed and sewn, then the whole piece was pressed and starched.


Here is the final piece, which will be trimmed when it gets added to the quilt.


The second block was made in the same manner with the same fabrics.

I hope you like this wavy improv way of making blocks with skinny inserts.

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