Chic Country Quilt Start

This is my first try with the Quick Curve Ruler, which has been out for quite a while. I'm always reluctant to buy a ruler that has only limited uses. Which is why I've put this one off for some time even though I love so many of the patterns created for it.

The Quick Curve Ruler is the brainchild of Jenny from Sew Kind of Wonderful.

So many of her patterns designed for the ruler are great, but I fell for Chic Country. The gray with a pop of orange quilt on the cover is beautiful, but me being me, I wanted to try a different look. I thought some of the smaller prints from Bonnie and Camille's new line "Little Ruby" would be soft, fresh and vintage looking in this pattern.

My plan is to make 3 red blocks with the rest of the quilt done in white and aqua. Here's my start - I wanted to see if I had the stamina to sew all those curves...

I wouldn't recommend this pattern to a brand new quilter, but the curves are gentle and pretty easy to stitch. The block components are squared up after stitching the curves, which leaves some wiggle room in the curvy piecing. The hardest part is matching up all those points on the blocks, but after finishing the set of nine blocks, I'm already better at it.

{And you won't see to many closeups of my points! We'll just say they're close!}

I think it's going to be really pretty - at least I hope so!

I finished up another little quilt this past week and donated it to my Greenville MQG for the ongoing quilts for kids charity project. The blocks were a start of the Reverse Sawtooth that I posted about here. They're the original 8" size from the pattern and were sitting once I changed my mind on the size and fabric.

It's so nice to send these potential UFOs off to be loved and cuddled!

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