Re: NY Beauty.

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is a free NYB BOM (actually 2-per-month) starting in June. Formore information go to: There are free instructions for one way in which to PP the blocks, as well as sample blocks at that site.

You do need to joing the free Yahoo Group "QuiltersCornerClub" to get the BOM patterns.

Bev in TX

You will probably find directions for several different methods. As you piece the blocks, you will evolve into your own system. For NYB, I remove the paper from the 'spiky' blocks before adding the plain pieces. I know some people who always leave the paper on until the block is complete. Try both and use the method that works best for you.

NYB is a blast!

joan

Thanks, I have saved these and also printed them out so I can study them better. I will have a go at the sample trial ones she gives. I reduced the size of the print she used to cut down on the amount of pages.

I've joined the Group and put the patterns into EQ, in case this is the one I decide to do.

I left the paper on so I had a sewing line and could see where the points of the spikes were.

BTDT. After you've paper-pieced the arc, trim it to a very accurate quarter-inch seam. Or if you are among the truly obsessive, you can stay stitch just outside the seam line. Then remove the paper and assemble to the solid bits. Note that you would have to clip the concave curve anyway, so it doesn't matter if the piecing seams unravel a little bit. (This is where stay stitching does a good job.) IME, if you try to leave the paper in, it just tears in the wrong spot, and it's hard to get a smooth curved seam.

Alternatively, you can press the seam allowance under and applique to the solid bit. Roberta in D

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No-one addressed your last question, Sally! No, you can't - unless you are prepared to have pleats. There was a book written about paper piecing curves, but the technique involves folds and pleats. I didn't like the look myself. . In message , Sally Swindells writes

I love NYB! Sally, if you can, you might try getting Judy Mathieson's book _Mariner's Compass Quilts__ (or the newer version, the name of which I've forgotten) from your library. Her method is *really* good.

I've got it, but hadn't thought of looking at it for NYB piecing, but of course its spikey pieces jointed to plain ones.

Thanks

LOL! I tend to think of Mariner's Compass quilts as a sort of variation of NYB -- and vice versa. ;)

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NYB:

aka Crown of Thorns:

I love doing New York Beauty style blocks. and love teaching them too. When I do them:

1. I make "templates" the same shape as the "spikes" and with about 3/8 inch seam allowances. I use these to cut my shapes from strips of fabric. That way I get the ends of the arcs to be straight grain, and the piecing goes way faster. (Note, I do not cut these super carefully, but sort of "rough cut" them. For the end pieces I am sure to cut with fabric folded so that I have a right end and a left end. Having the angles cut helps in placing the pieces and ensures getting the whole of the next area covered.)
2. Since the inside, shorter, curve is the one that is tricky to piece to the smaller piece, I do a longish stay stitch just to the inside of the seam line of the paper. be sure to trim the edge with an accurate quarter inch seam. And this is the only time I clip a curve, and only because the edges of the "spikes"/triangles are usually on straight grain and don't have the bias give of the usual curve.
3. Don't use too many pins. I only pin at the center point of the arc, if at all.
4. At the beginning, I recommend adding an extra quarter inch to all the outside edges of the block pieces. Not to the curved seams, but the outside straight seams. This allows you to better start and end the curved seam because you have a full half inch that is just a straight,

90° seam. It also allows you to trim all the blocks to the same measurements without worrying too much about all that bias you are stitching. This is especially true if you are stitching different types of fabrics together-- like a good batik to a 30's print or such. they do "give" differently along those curves.

Curves are fun. I love the look of curves and I really enjoy having students learn that they are not really difficult to piece. The students have fun too. (Once had a student bring lightweight "brocades" to a class on sewing curves. Something she really wanted to use. And even she went away from class with a good start and was very happy with the way it was going. )

For a real challenge, check out Karen K. St> I am contemplating doing a New York Beauty.

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I have Judy Mathieson's older version of Mariner's Compass technique...and am wondering what is so differnt in the new version of that booK?... I hate it when a newer version of a book comes out when I haven't even gotten to try out the author's old way of doing things !!...Judy did come to our guild meeting once and her quilts are fabulous !!..Mary

I'm not completely sure; but I think Judy's new book introduces her method of foundation paper piecing, done with freezer paper, without sewing through the paper. . In message , MB writes

Thanks...I was wondering if that might be the case . Mary

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