New york beauty

The New York Beauty Quilt Tutorial teaches sewing with curves, and putting together quilt blocks made with paper piecing.

While you're waiting for the Inklingo Mystery clues, we thought it would be fun to show you what happens when you mix the NY Wheel shapes with the shapes in the 3 Inklingo New York Beauty shape collections.

Ever since I first started quilting I have always loved the look of the New York Beauty block but have been a little intimidated by the comb...

This is Ulrike’s stunning New York Beauty quilt and she said it took her 10 years to complete this top! It is made with all batik fabrics and batik backing. The blocks and border were all paper pieced and I love the blocks put on an angle creating stars in the sashing. The whole quilt is stitched in the ditch which took the most work and then I rolled it back and added the quilting designs. I did the same feather in the outer curve in all the blocks, added pebbles to some of the arcs and…

Assemble a 9" New York Beauty block. (This block is also called a Chinese Fan block.)

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This tutorial is part of the New York Beauty Quilt Along. To see schedule and tutorials for all 10 blocks in

I’ve always wanted to make a New York Beauty quilt. It’s one of my bucket-list quilts. My other bucket-list quilt is a Double Wedding Ring quilt. I watched a few tutorials on YouTube and found this series by OnPoint-TV & Quilting with Nancy to be excellent. I've subscribed to her channel as there is a lot to watch. I watched the series of videos about making the New York Beauty (above) and then I watched Nancy explain how to design and manipulate blocks on Electric Quilt 8. I sat down with…

My first block for the Sorbet quilt from the book 'New York Beauties and Flying Geese' by Carl Hentsch, made in Tula Pink fabrics.

Here is where we left off on Tuesday… its worth repeating… if you don’t like your dividing lines (the scrolls on this design that are dividing up the areas) you won’t like y…