Liberated quilting

Any more words of description, Irene, so that we can tell? or would we know instantly if we had done any? . In message , irene writes

Do you mean Gwen Marston's techniques? I haven't seen her books, but I keep running into things online about her techniques. For the record, all of my quilting tends to be pretty Liberated. Liberated from patterns, liberated from pre-planning, liberated from sticking to one plan through the whole quilt. LOL But Gwen Marston is on my list of writers I want to check out.

Sunny

her site and free patterns.a pieced basket and 4 pretty embroidery designs to put something 'in' your basket. i reckon i'd delete the top row of triangles on the basket so it stretches from corner to corner only, the use a bigger handle and bigger embroidery design. hmmmm. j.

"Sunny" wrote ... Do you mean Gwen Marston's techniques? I haven't seen her books, but I keep running into things online about her techniques. For the record, all of my quilting tends to be pretty Liberated. Liberated from patterns, liberated from pre-planning, liberated from sticking to one plan through the whole quilt. LOL But Gwen Marston is on my list of writers I want to check out.

Sunny

In liberated quilting, they forget about aligning seams / points. No quilt police.

Irene.

Oh, I see. So is it really 'liberated piecing'?

In that case, no I haven't ever been tempted to try >g< . In message , vernie writes

I'm a picky girl too. However, a few years back I got a chance to take a class with Gwen Marston on her book Liberated String Quilts. I had so much fun! She is a delightful teacher and you can still match intersections.

marcella

No, if she wasn't embarrassed then it wasn't embarrassing. If she bragged, she was *proud* of the quilt, and she should be.

I think that's really the point about beginners. When teaching a beginner or a child, don't kill their joy by projecting experienced quality values onto them. If they can't see the mistakes, then they AREN'T mistakes.

Over time, most people find their way to the kind of quilting that gives them the most satisfaction. For some, that's going to be precision. For others, "quickness". For some people, stab quilting, although this one I have a hard time understanding.

No one would ever accuse me of "liberated" quilting, since my favorite is needle turn applique of curvy organic shapes with silk thread that takes me 1-2 years to finish, but it's the relaxing type for me. Doing pieced quilts on a machine drives me CRAZY if I have to care about precision. They only happen as spontaneous "stash" quilts with reckless fabric choices.

I just finished a round in our round robin. I was going to tuck in all the extra fabric so it was available to the next round. Ha! I decided this actually did have to be square and flat since it was a group project. By the time I was done mangling everyting with mis-cut and mis-sewn pieces, there was no extra fabric (we made a rule you have to at least put in a fat quarter if you put fabric in).

Susan K see my quilts: members.cox.net/kratersge

My take on this is that if she mentioned measuring and precision, then she WAS aware of those common concerns. She was bragging that she could make a quilt with out such constraints. That is her right of course, but I do like to have my seams be in very close alignment. OTOH, I have occasionally made free form type log cabins and stack and slash blocks that purposely do not align with in the blocks. However, those are obviously free form efforts and not mistakes. There is a difference. Having said all that, I would like to say that I am glad that quilting offers such a variety of style, technique and skill .... all of which can give us pleasure. Pat in Virginia