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Curved seams are nowhere near as difficult to do as people think … I use no pins and can put together the blocks for a cot quilt with 12 inch blocks in about half a day, including a coffee break, and in a one day class I have seen people go home with the same size quilt together, and they had to cut the pieces before they started.

These two designs use the same block design, but the colours have been mixed up a bit.

This could be the back of a pieced quilt … or the front of a whole cloth quilt.

The second design is the front of a quilt because the pieced blocks are visible … and I like it! I think I would quilt the block outlines in these designs, but in a thread to match the background fabric.

A very interesting design!

These designs are no where as hard to do if you use the no pins method of joining the two curved pieces. Then I would start at the right hand side and chain piece the first two rows on the left, then continue chain piecing squares to the right hand side, using the diagram as a guide. In workshops I had students finish a cot quilt top in a day, including cutting, piecing the curves and joining the top.

A simple 4P block spins around creating a 8×8 Patch block. I wonder how man ways it can spin!

Exactly the same arrangement, but with two colours. These first two designs are modified Drunkards Path, and there are a lot more ways to modify them.

Interesting!

I like the last design, and might one day get around to playing with colour in this design, and others.

Interesting version of Patchwork Jigsaws, formally known as Drunkard’s Path.

Flip every second block left to right, and the Drunkard’s Path link becomes much more obvious!

Interesting and different but with a touch of the traditional, the sort of quilt designs I like.

More of the same attributes in the second design.

I love the ‘sashing’ effect of those lines of little squares!

Also love the pieced block design filling in the blank spaces as quilting.

The second design uses the little squares more like a border, and they are still very effective.

This is just one of many ways a square with a quarter circle can be arranged to make a 4P square, then put together to make a quilt design.

Many years ago I did some multiplying on a sheet of paper to work out how many ways a 4P square could be arranged, then kept multiplying until I had the number of ways four of those square could be put together.

The number reached level of annual government wages of public servants in most countries around the world. I decided that I would not spend the rest of my life ...

I like it, and one I would put away after Christmas is over.

I keep thinking that those squares are dancing … and no, I haven’t had anything to drink other than coffee this morning!

The squares are still dancing!

Love the second design!

Coloring is a bit on the dull side, but I think the contrast is about right.

Both designs are very interesting!

Not my favourite colours, but an interesting design.

I like the second one!

Christmas is coming, so for the next 25 days there will be Christmas designs every day.

These could be used all year, but here in Australia they need very thin wadding for our Christmas season!