Colorful Curves

I'm finishing up this round of curvy string blocks.  I made thirteen of them (last black-and-white one not in photo) before I ran out of strings big enough to do curves on finished 8-inch block.

Every block went together differently.  Some I started with the longest strings and worked to the points.  Others I started with one edge and moved to the other.  I started one crazy block at both corners and met in the middle - that took some work to even out.

Tutorials I read layered both pieces right-side up and cut through both pieces at once.  The pieces always crawled as I cut through them, plus I couldn't see the the edges of the piece underneath.  So I would cut one piece (often the one that was skinnier) with the curve I wanted.  Then I'd place the other piece underneath and cut along the line of the first piece.

I tried a few ways of pinning and sewing.  I started by pinning along the whole length of the edge.  But after a while, I just pinned just the very top of the seam (to make sure I had things lined up properly), then matched edges as I stitched.  It's a lot of stop and starts, or if I sew slowly I can meet up the edges fast enough to keep the needle moving.  But it seemed faster than pinning and unpinning it all.

You can see how ripply the seam is, then it magically all irons flat.  Very nice!  I square off the new edges and add the next piece.  I got to the point I could work on three blocks at once (as long as I was careful to set aside what colors I wanted to use!).

I made all my blocks 9 inches square to begin with, to cut down to 8½ inches.  Some of them needed more steam than others.  They all look pretty good!  I stitched together a bunch of little strings that were too skinny or short to work with this.  Not sure what I'll do with those.  But for now, my string bag is empty.

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