This title helps you learn how to create your very own one-of-a-kind quilts with free-form cutting and piecing. You can enjoy the freedom of free-form! In this follow-up to the hugely popular "Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth", Rayna shares her "can't make a mistake" approach to designing quilts. You can learn how to trust your instincts so you can work more intuitively, and develop a new appreciation for the therapy of sewing without a plan. With these new skills, you can create new work from leftovers and scraps, dig into those favourite fabrics, and transform all those unfinished projects!
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Rayna Gillman is a professional artist who creates, exhibits, and teaches surface design. Her work has featured in numerous books, magazines, and TV shows.
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64 of 65 people found the following review helpful
By goldendog
Format:Paperback
"Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts" by Rayna Gillman is a great book for budding art quilters, beginning quilters, and quilters who just don't follow the 'Quilting Rules'! Gillman gives you the freedom of using batiks, hand-dyed fabrics, commercial fabrics, hand-printed fabrics and leftover blocks and UFO's (unfinished objects), all in one quilt.. This is definitely a book for green quilters. It's also a book for angry quilters, because you get to sew and then, cut it up, and if you want, you can cut it up some more! Create Your Free-Form Quilts gives you ideas of what to do when you have finished cutting, the use of colors, and putting it altogether. Don't worry if you can't find a pattern to use. Make one yourself! And you probably won't have to buy any new fabric! (Oh, that's not so good, is it?) But, you will save $$$. The quilt ideas in this book are fun and just think, the quilts you make will be completely yours!
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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
The stress free way to creating original, eclectic and visually engaging quilts
November 25, 2011
Format:Paperback
This book is your key to learning how to create original, eclectic and visually engaging quilts without feeling the need to follow rules about seam sizes or what fabric and color combinations to use. You'll find Rayna's stress free approach to free form cutting, piecing and blending that stack of hand dyed and printed fabric you have with the off the shelf commercial prints a refreshing way to approach creating your next quilt.
Broken down into 8 main chapters beginning with some guidelines on getting organized and ways to sort your fabrics. This opening chapter will have you thinking twice about tossing that ugly fabric you think is unusable after you read the case study of an ugly fabric that beautifully illustrates that no matter how ugly you think a piece of fabric is, if you cut it up it can be transformed into something wonderful. Now that you're looking at your fabric stash with fresh eyes it's time to start cutting and sewing strips. No rulers necessary for this step. Strips are cut free hand and Rayna's clearly illustrated directions on how to cut and sew strips of various widths as well as how to create strip sets with curved edges are easy to follow and understand. The next several chapters of the book show you how to transform those strip sets by slicing, dicing, combining, adding borders and strip slices, cutting and rotating and encourage you to continue to be fearless with your rotary cutter and to trust your instincts with regards to color combinations without worrying about breaking any rules about what color should be placed to the one next to it.
In the last chapter of the book Rayna introduces you to working with a design wall and your design partners, "ad hoc" and "slow". Again taking a no rules approach here to spontaneous creating she doesn't just show you a finished quilt but illustrates with photos the process of auditioning different options for putting together modules of your strip steps. This chapter has a different tone than the rest of the book in that Rayna encourages you to approach the design and composition of your quilt with your strip sets and modules at a slower more thoughtful pace. Taking time to step back from your design, reflect on and letting it evolve without rushing through it.
Rayna has a engaging conversational tone that make the book a very enjoyable read and the entire book is beautifully illustrated with clear, bright, vibrant photographs of step by step directions, examples and artwork.
Broken down into 8 main chapters beginning with some guidelines on getting organized and ways to sort your fabrics. This opening chapter will have you thinking twice about tossing that ugly fabric you think is unusable after you read the case study of an ugly fabric that beautifully illustrates that no matter how ugly you think a piece of fabric is, if you cut it up it can be transformed into something wonderful. Now that you're looking at your fabric stash with fresh eyes it's time to start cutting and sewing strips. No rulers necessary for this step. Strips are cut free hand and Rayna's clearly illustrated directions on how to cut and sew strips of various widths as well as how to create strip sets with curved edges are easy to follow and understand. The next several chapters of the book show you how to transform those strip sets by slicing, dicing, combining, adding borders and strip slices, cutting and rotating and encourage you to continue to be fearless with your rotary cutter and to trust your instincts with regards to color combinations without worrying about breaking any rules about what color should be placed to the one next to it.
In the last chapter of the book Rayna introduces you to working with a design wall and your design partners, "ad hoc" and "slow". Again taking a no rules approach here to spontaneous creating she doesn't just show you a finished quilt but illustrates with photos the process of auditioning different options for putting together modules of your strip steps. This chapter has a different tone than the rest of the book in that Rayna encourages you to approach the design and composition of your quilt with your strip sets and modules at a slower more thoughtful pace. Taking time to step back from your design, reflect on and letting it evolve without rushing through it.
Rayna has a engaging conversational tone that make the book a very enjoyable read and the entire book is beautifully illustrated with clear, bright, vibrant photographs of step by step directions, examples and artwork.
41 of 41 people found the following review helpful
By Quilter
Format:Paperback
This is the first quilt book I've ever sat down and read from cover to cover! It was easy reading, easy to understand and the of course the eye-candy is delicious. I enjoyed her first book immensely, but this is a whole different technique.
I've been trying to recreate Rayna's style on my own, but just couldn't get it to work. Not understanding how she whacked away at the blocks/strip sets was part of the problem. Now I understand her process and am looking forward to many hours using fabrics I am otherwise tired of.
"What if" I actually spend some time in the studio and like what I produce!!??? I have faith it will happen now!
I've been trying to recreate Rayna's style on my own, but just couldn't get it to work. Not understanding how she whacked away at the blocks/strip sets was part of the problem. Now I understand her process and am looking forward to many hours using fabrics I am otherwise tired of.
"What if" I actually spend some time in the studio and like what I produce!!??? I have faith it will happen now!
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun and Freeing
Great instruction and very freeing! Fun! This feels like a whole new craft for me and it is exciting to see what happens next as you work.
Published 8 days ago by joyce graber
5.0 out of 5 stars
FREE-FORM? OH YES!
Refreshing design happens naturally with this approach. Landscapes, geological cross-sections, seascapes, urban design seem to naturally fall into place with this approach to... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Sherrie Samuels
3.0 out of 5 stars
interesting
I like the free form idea. but some areas of these designs seem messy. But I am still drawn to it. It is a good way to use up your scapes or utlize some fabric you don't like. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Christina Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent resource book for all levels of quilters
This book has what I've been searching for: how to begin to compose an art quilt. It encourages quilters to think outside of the traditional block and go with their instincts. Read more
Published 1 month ago by AR Quilter
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Book
I love it when you can take a look inside a book before buying. This one looked great and the unseen parts did not disappoint.
Published 2 months ago by Mountain Top
5.0 out of 5 stars
Very good book
Already made the quilt very good book
To start with found this confusing but once into the quilt could not stop until finished used my scraps.
Lots of good ideas
To start with found this confusing but once into the quilt could not stop until finished used my scraps.
Lots of good ideas
Published 2 months ago by Rae Carlson - Turnwald
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Must-Have for the Creative Quilter
Initially, I got this book from the library, but have since purchased one for my own library. As a creative-type stitcher, I prefer my own patterns and find this book encourages me... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Recie
2.0 out of 5 stars
I wasted a lot of good fabric!
The method was a bit of a disappointment to say the least-- time consuming and wasteful. I bought this book a year or so ago after I bought Rayna's excellent book, Create Your Own... Read more
Published 2 months ago by taxingwoman
5.0 out of 5 stars
do your own thing
This is indeed a stress free way to create a quilt. Forget all the quilting rules you've ever learned and dive into your fabric stash and make a wonderful free form quilt. Read more
Published 2 months ago by B. J. Wright
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent purchase!
This is a lovely book--the photos are quite precise and the text is truly a how-to guide, I have added it to my art quilt collection and have employed some of the ideas to my own... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Vicki Hogan
