Sewing curves tutorial

use a glue stick to baste curved fabric pieces together before sewing perfect curves. Learn how to sew curves perfectly every time with this easy quilting tutorial filled with quilting tips & tricks! A curved piecing quilting project is a great next challenge for your patchwork & quilting sewing ideas!

In this sewing tutorial, I will show you how to sew corners and curved seams. Although sewing straight lines is relatively easy, sewing curves and corners can be more challenging.

One of my favorite techniques to teach is piecing curves. Curves are magical—they look complicated to do, but they’re really not. So many quilters are intimidated by curves but if you can sew a ¼” seam you can sew beautiful curves. Seriously. All you need are some tips, a bit of patience and practic

Thank you for all of your comments regarding both the foundation paper pieced Colorwheel Mini Quilt and the Making Waves Pillow Cover ....

Sewing curved pieces or strips usually scares off most quilters but with these simple key concepts the results are amazing every time.

How to sew a curved hem? Well it depends! I've made a few videos explaining different techniques for sewing around curves.

Continuing on from last week where I showed you how to add bias and always catch the back, this week we look at adding bias to curves. Set your iron with the steam turned off (you don't want to burn yourself) and press the bias to the curve you are needing to sew. Pressing the bias into a curve shape will help you get a nice, neat finish. Normally you align your bias edge to the fabric edge. With curves I find it works better if your bias is overlapping the fabric edge a little. Because you…

You can make an awful lot of stuff just sewing straight lines, but at some point you're going to want to sew a curve. Sewing a curved line isn't really any harder than sewing a straight line - unless it's a tight curve. And the tighter the curve, the tougher it is to sew smoothly.

Super convenient cheat sheet for how to clip and notch curves and corners when turning and topstitching. Part of the Learn to Machine Sew series at www.cucicucicoo.com!

I came home from work today and opened my Google Reader to see that a friend was having trouble sewing Drunkard's Path Curves. So I was compelled to make a real video and post it on Youtube. I enlisted my youngest son to be cameraperson and also technical advisor. This video was made in one take (since all he did was pause the video game he was playing) - there was no time to practice, set up, rehearse, or write a script. The video is 1:18 minutes. It shows you exactly what I do in exactly…