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TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • INTRODUCTION
  • Significant Concepts
  • Design
  • How to Use This Book
  • SECTION I: BEGINNINGS
    • Process 1: Simple Shapes
    • Proccess 2: Strips and Scraps
    • Process 3: Log Cabins
    • Process 4: Multiple Compositions
    • Process 5: Houses
  • SECTION II: BASE CONSTRUCTION
    • Process 6: The Exquisite
    • Process 7: Shoo Fly
    • Process 8: Variable Stars
    • Process 9: Old Maid's Ramble
    • Process 10: Bow Tie
  • SECTION III: FREE-PIECING
    • Process 11: Stars with Strips
    • Process 12: Free-Pieced Stars
    • Process 13: African Series
    • Process 14: Liberated Pictorial Quilts
  • SECTION IV: RECUT BLOCKS
    • Process 15: Nine-Patch
    • Process 16: Strips with Squares
    • Process 17: Pinwheels
    • Process 18: Shoo Fly with Recut Sashing
  • SECTION V: FRACTURED FABRIC
    • Process 19: Ohio Star
    • Process 20: Fractured Four- and Nine-Patch
    • ()
  • Afterword
  • Glossary
  • Index of Quilts
  • Other Books by the Author
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Title: Liberated Quiltmaking
Editors: Gwen Marston
Format/Publication Date: HC:1996
Publisher: American Quilter's Society, Paducah, KY
Language: English
Page Count: 192
Book Dimensions(ht. x w.): 11" x 8 1/2"
ISBN: 0891458786

SUMMARY- This is Gwen's book on utility quilts and their aesthetic undervaluing. Improvisational quilting is an interesting idea, and she makes some great arguments for it - and shows a lot of eye candy that supports her theorem. This was a surprisingly interesting book to me, who has OCD issues and loves precision. I'm so glad I encountered this book. It broadened my view, and I'm always happy for that. I don't think you'll believe me, though, if you don't take a look for yourself. I especially loved the improvisational stars.

Authors have a website: www.possibilitiesquilt.com