Crazy Curves Templates

Some of you may remember my old beige-stripped cushions, which I turned into a beautiful pillow that would nicely with my winter quilt.  I've my summer quilt on my bed now and the beige-stripped cushions are back with their ugliness. 

 

So why not make another set that goes would go nicely with my summer quilt.  Digging into my left-over scraps, I was so happy to found I had a few large pieces available for this project, but not enough for two. With a bit of playing around with my statch, I blended a few additional fabric that will go along with them. 

Now that about the pattern? Flipping over PillowPOP by Heather Bostic; 25 quick-sew projects to brighten your space. I found an interesting pattern for this project. It had curves. Yikes!! I never sew curved, oh well, time to learn.

The book compiled by Heather Bostic provided the paper templates pattern at the back of her book. At first, I thought no way, I'm not doing that and was blessed when I found the 7" Crazy Curves Temples by  Elisa's Backporch in our guild room and the templates were bigger.

 The 7" Crazy Curves Templates are easily cut using a rotary cutter. 

 After I sewed the curves together by putting the concave at the bottom and pulling gently on the top as I sew-along. No pinning, no gluing either. That's entirely my avenue is sewing thing. Fast and easy is my motto *laugh*

  Play. Play.Play. Isn't fun:)

Love the modern-look it gives my quilt. Fresh and new. 

Quilt 4: Homestead

 With quilt #4, I opted for print fabric, instead of the solid fabrics suggested by the designer. Also the overall of the pattern didn't really caught my eyes and almost  skipped the pattern all together. Another reason I wanted passed over this pattern, is it require alot of fabrics for one colour, but in the end I pulled what I had and make the best for it. Isn't what challenges are there for, the take us out of our comfort quilting and creative zone.

Step 1: The rusty/aqua print is what guide my choices. Eight strips by the WOF were sewn together, then cut into squares.

                               
Steps 2: Two strips of 2 1/2" and one of 9" were sewn together then cut into strips.

Step 3:  After that making blocks was easy.

 Spring is here! I have to go outside and bath in the sun. Ahhhh feel so good. Back to sewing:(

 Step 4: It's time to lay our my blocks.

 Step 5: I used the same technique to align my shashing with a chalk marker. Even if I don't pinned, it easier when I sewed the two parts together by aligning those markers together.

A complete different outlook. Not my favorite quilt pattern and color, but I've keep do my challenge and I'm happy about it.

Now that SPRING is here and SUMMER around the corner, it will be harder for me to continue my challenges. Summer is soooo short. This is why I started my blog a few years ago, to keep sewing in and out of season. To bring new ideas, creativity, and challenges into my quilting world.

Hope you enjoy your spring walks as much as I do. 

Homestead is designed by  Cori Derkensen and Myra Harder. You can also found this pattern in the Quilty: Easy Modern Quilts 2016 magazine or purchase the pattern at Fon's and Porter.