Good morning!! I had a whole lot of fun trying this technique out!
The technique I wanted to try is a folded corner technique where the folded edge is rolled back and tacked down to create curves. It’s similar to how a cathedral window block is made. The magazine Today’s Quilter ran a block of the month series using this technique in their 2024 issues. I chose the Lily block from Issue 111 to make.
Here’s my fabric pull. This is from a set of ½ yards that I purchased at a sewing expo last year. It has a few other large-scale florals as well, which I’ll use when I put the block in quilt.
Then I started making units! The underlying structure of the block is a 9-patch. So there are 9 units. The folded edges are on the medium blue flying geese, the white flying geese, the light green triangles (sky part of the flying geese) in the top four units; the center diamond in the middle; and the dark blue triangles in the bottom 4 units.
Then those are laid out into a 9-patch, ready to be sewn together!
And here’s the block sewn together.
The next step now is to roll back and tack down all the folded corners. I decided to do this part by hand as I felt it would create a neater finish rather than stopping and starting the sewing machine at various places all over the top of block. It took me about 4 evenings to do the hand stitching. It was lovely sewing by the fire place! Here’s the finished block with a framing border. I just love the curved edges!
I thought you might enjoy seeing the back! Because of the many layers needed to create the folded edges all the seams are pressed open.
My plan is to use this is some type of medallion quilt that is lap sized. I think a medallion style quilt will give some good design options for the large-scale florals that came with the set of ½ yards. And I’m considering using this in as the center piece for the SAHRR (Stay at Home Round Robin) hosted by Quilting Gail | A scrappy quilter and not a perfect quilter which starts next week!
Happy stitching!
Kristi