Improv quilts

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Have you ever wanted to learn how to make an improv quilt? This article from world-renowned improv quilter Cindy Grisdela can get you started. Once you read about her inspirations and techniques f…

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Out of the Box: An Improv Piecing Workshop

Now we go beyond the Log Cabin. How about some LARGE pieces of fabric doing the work? Still irregular, indiscriminate blocks for a clean, t...

Improv quilting. The modern scrap quilt?

Curious about improv quilting but not sure where to start? This beginner-friendly guide will help you explore improvisational quilting with confidence, creativity, and no patterns required!

As a teacher, one of the questions I get most often from students in my Improv classes is “how do you know what to do?” followed closely by “how do you know when it’s finish…

Leslie Jenison

As a teacher, one of the questions I get most often from students in my Improv classes is “how do you know what to do?” followed closely by “how do you know when it’s finish…

How to work with an underlying structure improv quilt

For the past three years, I have wanted to make something with my solid scraps. I have WAY more scraps than I thought! (I hel...

Here we are at Day Two with my second No Sneaky Peeky class sample. This hangs in my daughter's house. Actually, ALL of these quilts (in...

Almost a year ago, I ordered some screen printed scraps from Karen Lewis. I immediately sorted some of them into what I thought would be the makings of a good quilt. But then I got busy with other things and it got put to one side. A couple of weeks ago, I revisited my idea and decided to add some more fabric in. As you can see, they are only small scraps of fabric so it seemed to me, the best way to show them off, would be to attempt to make a modern(ish) quilt. I completely took as my…

My improv pieced curve quilt is finished. In my bid to practice sewing pieced curves, I got out a bunch of 5" squares that I had left over from a previous project and took to them with my rotary cutter. It was a little scary at the beginning, but I'm so glad that I made it... and finished it. I learned a lot about curved piecing along the way - the right ways of doing it, and the wrong. After watching a bunch of YouTube videos, it seems that I sewed my curves together the 'wrong' way. I had…

In November we held a workshop with Nicholas Ball, the talented improv quilter and author of Inspiring Improv. The Night Garden Nick is an amazing teacher – he gave us so much to learn, witho…

Cindy Grisdela is a quilt artist and teacher who has also written two books about improv quilting. She was the speaker at our recent guild meeting, and also taught two different workshops. I was lucky enough to take part in her "Artful Improv" class, and today I am happy to share my finished quilt top from that class. We learned about several different improv techniques that Cindy uses regularly including improv blocks, angled stripes and improv curves. At the end of that first day, I had…

Cindy Grisdela on Instagram: “I finished the top for my newest Improv Puzzle quilt! This one is about 48” x 52” before quilting. It was a fun challenge and I’m going to…”