Improv quilting

My improv pieced curve quilt is finished. In my bid to practice sewing pieced curves, I got out a bunch of 5" squares that I had left over from a previous project and took to them with my rotary cutter. It was a little scary at the beginning, but I'm so glad that I made it... and finished it. I learned a lot about curved piecing along the way - the right ways of doing it, and the wrong. After watching a bunch of YouTube videos, it seems that I sewed my curves together the 'wrong' way. I had…

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Now we go beyond the Log Cabin. How about some LARGE pieces of fabric doing the work? Still irregular, indiscriminate blocks for a clean, t...

Here we are at Day Two with my second No Sneaky Peeky class sample. This hangs in my daughter's house. Actually, ALL of these quilts (in...

Met the man behind the improv quilting movement, Nicholas Ball. Discover his beautiful quilts, techniques and tips on finding inspiration.

Curious about improv quilting but not sure where to start? This beginner-friendly guide will help you explore improvisational quilting with confidence, creativity, and no patterns required!

As a teacher, one of the questions I get most often from students in my Improv classes is “how do you know what to do?” followed closely by “how do you know when it’s finish…

In October, Allie asked us to make ladders for her Quilts Unscripted Bee. She asked that we make blocks that are at least 8" on each side with a ladder going all the way across the block, edge to edge. "The ladder can be curved, straight, leaning, have mismatched rungs, be missing rungs, anything. It ...continue reading →