Showing posts with label free piecing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label free piecing. Show all posts

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Liberty Prints and Liberated Quiltmaking

I finished hand-binding the Liberty scrap quilt for our unborn baby's bassinet this morning.


And the backing...



I have started ANOTHER project!  Unlike all the good bloggers finishing their UFOs, I seem to be accruing MORE UFOs.  Anyway, I couldn't stop myself.  A a new aquaintance lent me some quilting books, one of which was Gwen Marston's "Liberated Quiltmaking".  I immediately became obsessed, pouring over illustrations of Gwen's work in the book.  I had to start something immediately!

Here is one of 9 blocks I have made using the "free piecing" method described in Gwen's book:



I have used only fabrics from my little stash so far.  You may recognize the liberty prints - offcuts from the liberty scrap quilt pictured above.  It was so much fun to make up the block as I went along, with no plan, no measurements, no idea what was going to happen next.  It really was liberating!