Liberated Quiltmaking

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Summary: Free yourself and just make a quilt
Review: After her book on quilting encouraged me to just draw freehand designs that suited the quilt and it's theme, this is the next logical step. Free yourself from all those old sewing rules, and just design and sew innovative pieces, in less time. Many projects are given, as well as step-by-step instructions.

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Summary: Free spirit?
Review: Beeing a self-taught quilter and a "one time is enough pattern-follower" I simply loved this book! If you buy quilting books just for the patterns this is probably not the book for you, but if you like me read books for inspiration you will love this one. The photos are simply wonderful and the author's way of working is very easy to follow. This will be one of the few books I will read and enjoy more than once.

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Summary: AMAZING book!!!!!! A+++++
Review: I absolutely LOVE this book. I am a beginner quilter, and not a rule-follower by nature. Soooo... Gwen's free-form style really, really appeals to me. The quilts pictured in her book are FABULOUS!! I have just completed the top of my first quilt (made for my 6 month old baby, Landon, and titled "Landon's May-You-Always-Color-Outside-the-Lines Quilt) and I cannot quit admiring it!! :) :) I was very much inspired by Gwen's book, which I bought almost 2 months ago and have already read through twice. My quilt has been a hit with everyone I've shown it to. If you like intuitive, spontaneous artwork/quilting, this book is for you. ENJOY!

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Summary: Textile artistry for the beginning quilter!
Review: I happened upon the Accidental Quilters list of favorite quilt books-and thank goodness!! She spotlighted this book, and I ordered it immediately for several reasons-but mostly because I was a beginning quilter, and the artist in me bulked at the thought of making a cookie cutter quilt-regardless of whether it would be my first or my fiftieth! I appreciate the time and talent that goes into making a quilt from a pattern, but that is just not me. Thank you Accidental Quilter, thank you Gwen Marsten! Fabulous!!

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Summary: Free spirit?
Review: I met Gwen Marston last month in a suprise quilt workshop in Tallahasse where she presented the liberated method of this book. I bought this book immediately and I was not disapointed. Liberated quilting focuses on a process of scrap quilting that was used by our grandmothers and great grandmothers to piece the homey utility quilts that our families slept under. These are not the art design beauties that are crafted for quilt shows, but the home bound beauties that collect the scraps from out family lives. These are the quilts you take on the picnic--the quilts that are threadbare from love and use. The process creation is almost magical and has a soothing effect on this quilter. The directions in this book are clear and inspiring. Thank you Gwen for discovering and passing on this method of quilting that is nearly lost in the modern world of quilting.

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Summary: It's simply the best
Review: I own more than 100 different quiltingbooks, and this one is simply the best. It has given me a new way of looking at quilting, the whole prosess of it.

It has liberated me from the usual way of looking at blocks, and I know that this book will help me to make unik quilts, quilts I can sell without thinking of copywrights...

I have only been quilting for a year, but I have made more than 80 different quilts from dobbelbed size to tablerunners and I needed something new. This book gave me that.

I like to be able to make a quilt in a week or shorter time, this book has given me inspiration for many new ones, I just love it. Many thanks to Gwen Marston for setting me free....

Good luck to all you happy quilters out there from Olaug Berg Haugland in Norway

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Summary: Fabulously ingenius!
Review: Liberated Quiltmaking is like no other book I've ever seen! It is its very uniqueness that makes it so fascinating --and so simple. The basic concept is that to be truly creative, we need to stop following someone else's rules. This, in turn, frees up ("liberates") our creativity. The result is a folk-art kind of very personal, one-of-a-kind quilt. I'd been looking for a pattern for a rocket ship, and after just looking at the book's photos, I made my own, terrific-if-I-must-say-so-myself, rocket ship!

If you're open to creating a quilt that's not an exact copy of another one, this is the book you want!