Experimenting

I was browsing YouTube the other day (as one does) and watched a video on improvisational curved piecing. I loved the look of it, so I gave it a go.

Backstory: a few years ago, I gave my friend a quilted iPad cover. It recently wore out, so I thought this would be a practical way to make her a new one… I get to play and she gets a new iPad cover.

I quilted the curved piece using some simple fills in the cream sections, a swirly fill in the black and I played with circular fill on the grey. The strips just had some line texture added.

It felt a little bit bad to cut it up, but I trimmed it to make the iPad cover. I used the trimmed piece to make the tab closure with Velcro. I cut a slash in the back of the cover and inserted the tab and satin-stitched over it to keep it together. Then I stitched the side and bottom of the cover, made a rectangular liner and bound the top edge with pre-made bias binding.

Of course, I had to stitch a ‘you can’t buy this’ label on it. This was a one-off and I will not be making these for sale. Additionally, I added a MishMash Quilts label. Every quilting customer receives one of these.

There you have it! An experiment that went quite well.