How to sew circles quilt blocks

Inset Circles are a great way to enhance circle shapes in a quilt. Use this measurements guide to make any size inset circle you want.

What you need: -2 sheets of freezer paper cut to size or near finished block. Mine is 10.5" -compass to draw circle or...

A pieced circle in 6 minutes! I first saw this technique on Simply Quilts, an HGTV show back in 2005. I thought the technique was cool and immediately bought the book about it, Pieced Curves So Simple by Dale Fleming. Of course, the moment passed and I never did anything with it until this week. I was inspired by my Redbird Bee buddy, Hanna's quilt Hugs and Hugs. I thought they'd make the perfect addition to my "X" blocks for a hugs and kisses baby quilt. Was I able to do a pieced circle in…

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming. 😉 I’ve finally pulled together the set in circle tutorial that I have been mentioning for months now. I’m sorry that it has taken me so long to get to this. What can I say? Life happens. This tutorial will teach you step by step the method I ...

Simple circles free quilt pattern by Andy of A Bright Corner - a throw size fat quarter quilt pattern that is easier than it looks no curved piecing

Have you ever wanted to learn how to needle-turn appliqué but didn't know where to start? Worried about how to turn different shapes/corners? Well have I got a shape for you! The Squircle! A squircle is an organic blend of a square and a circle - essentially a rounded corner square - that is meant to be free cut and h

On March 7th at my Guild meeting I will be doing the Tips and Techniques. We have been talking about Hexagons so I thought that I would do some different views of creating them. The first one will be creating a Hexagon from a Circle... First you will need a 5" Square .... Fold in half Don't throw away the extra... I will show what I did with that later. Here's what you can do with those extra pieces... Add another 5" square under the extra. Create a small quilt with it... Here's the front…

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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!