Liberated Quiltmaking [Hardcover]

Gwen Marston (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1996

Quilter and lecturer Gwen Marston introduces quilters to distinctive processes for creating original quilts. Without using templates or set patterns, Gwen guides the quiltmaker through each process, showing a way to work rather than actually dictating the destination. Over 100 beautiful and colorful quilts plus 150 illustrations are pictured in the book and the step-by-step instructions will serve as guides to help the quilter realize her own creative abilities. The adventure of Liberated Quiltmaking processes keeps the quilter engaged throughout the entire operation. These processes require using both intuition and emotion as well as technical skill. Discover true freedom to create your own quilt that is beautifully unique. AUTHORBIO: Helping quilters realize their own creative abilities, Gwen Marston teaches quiltmaking in the United States as well as Japan. She has enjoyed more than 26 solo exhibits of her work in both of these countries, including seven museum exhibits of her small quilts. Gwen has been a regular columnist for "Lady's Circle Patchwork Quilts" and has authored 15 books, five for AQS. REVIEW: "Her 'liberated quiltmaking' is the making of utility quilts (quilts meant to be used, not just exhibited) without templates or patterns or even necessarily a preplanned color scheme. When process becomes more important than pattern, the endless possibilities that arise during the combined planning/making process keep the quilter fully engaged. Highly recommended for subject collections."

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

Unlike Balosky, Marston can claim master quiltmaker status, although it would probably never occur to her to do so. The author of 13 books on quilting, Marston has exhibited widely and has been a columnist for Lady's Circle Patchwork Quilts. Even more significantly, she has made 150 large quilts and more than 300 small quilts! Her "liberated quiltmaking" is the making of utility quilts (quilts meant to be used, not just exhibited) without templates or patterns or even necessarily a preplanned color scheme. When process becomes more important than pattern, the endless possibilities that arise during the combined planning/making process keep the quilter fully engaged. Highly recommended for subject collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: American Quilter's Society (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891458786
• ISBN-13: 978-0891458784
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #799,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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82 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended by the Accidental Quilter, April 8, 2001

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Mary Z. Cox (Tallahassee, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Liberated Quiltmaking (Hardcover)

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.

52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fabulously ingenius!, August 31, 1999

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This review is from: Liberated Quiltmaking (Hardcover)

This is the book I have been waiting for and didn't even know it. This book is for quilters who may be tired of the old mundane and tedious world of quilting. This book gives you the guidelines to be freer in your quilting, to let the quilt evolve. No precision here. No templates needed. No cutting and sewing the same block over and over. Quilting is fun again and oh, so creative. You too can create a quilt with lots of personality! Read this book!

41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AMAZING book!!!!!! A+++++, February 21, 2001

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Loulie Scharf (Asheville, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Liberated Quiltmaking (Hardcover)

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!