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| My blocks, liberated shoo-fly and stars |
I'm working through Liberated Quiltmaking II by Gwen Marston. Next I'll work through Cultural Fushion Quilts by Sujata Shah. In 2013 I did a lot of embroidery on my sewing kits and finished up a couple of art quilts. Lately I've felt the need to branch out into more traditional quilting still keeping the art aspect, the freedom to use color and design as I wish. So Gwen's book and Sujata's book are just right for that.
First off, working through Gwen's book, I made enough wonky log cabin blocks to make a small quilt. Then came liberated star and shoo fly blocks, next onto flying geese blocks. They'll go into a sampler type quilt, I think.
I'm going to start pressing seams open, it looks neater and flatter. Sujata suggests doing seams that way. Some quilters advise to press seams to the side. I've done that and the results are not as neat and flat. How do you press your seams?
That's my progress and report for Monday, have a good week!
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