Layers of Meaning

Piecing Curves

Piecing curves is a challenge. I can put a sleeve into a shirt with only a few struggles, but a shirt sleeve is a 3D sculptural shape. The curve is not supposed to lie flat. Pieced curves for a quilt are supposed to lie flat - really flat.

Alison Schwabe has created a handout with great illustrations (for those of us who are verbally impaired) that shows and describes how to create an obedient pieced curve. Schwabe's advice for my curves: "If you end up with a mini-mountain-range or a thing looking like a bra, you have sewn the wrong edges together – absolutely, so unpick and go back to find the right piece to go with the one on which you’re working."

Here's hoping for a non-sculptural curve.
image: Alison Schwabe; handout on piecing curves