Liberated String Quilts: 20 Foundation-Free Projects

by Gwen Marston

Overview

21 Foundation-free String Quilts with Vision and Style! Quilt artist Gwen Marston introduces a new concept in string quilts! Learn her innovative techniques for fast, foundation-free string quilts that sizzle. According to Gwen, grand results come from lea_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_#_x0000_%_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_'_x0000_a_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_#_x0000_%_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_#_x0000_%_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_#_x0000_%_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_'_x0000_'_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_#_x0000_%_x0000_?_x0000_?_x0000_#_x0000_%_x0000_ to have lots of fun sewing strings! 20 string-pieced quilt projects include updated traditional designs, Amish classics, and more. Complete instructions for working with short strings_x0000_???ng strings, rectangles, and wedges. Gwen shares string quilt history and her “liberated” methods of construction. Plus a dazzling gallery of antique string quilts.???

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781607053767
Publisher:	C & T Publishing
Publication date:	08/04/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	29 MB
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About the Author

Gwen Marston is a professional quiltmaker, teacher and author. Since 1981 she has had nineteen solo exhibits and participated in many group shows. She maintains a busy teaching and lecture schedule across the United States and has twice taught in Japan. For the past twenty years she has conducted quilt retreats on Beaver Island, Michigan, her year-round home. She was a regular columnist for Ladies Circle Patchwork Quilts for twelve consecutive years. This is her sixteenth book.

Editorial Reviews

A well-known quiltmaker/teacher and the author of 16 books on the art of quilting, Marston calls string quilts the " `Jackson Pollacks' of textiles, as spontaneous, vibrant, and dramatic as his paintings." Traditional string quilts were made with narrow pieces of fabric usually left over from other projects and sewn to a foundation block, sometimes in an orderly manner but more often in an impromptu flurry of fabric strings. This book is at once a history of traditional string quiltmaking and an exposition of new methods of construction developed by the author in an effort to avoid tedious foundation-bound quilts. Twenty string-pieced projects lead the reader through Marston's methods for working with short strings, long strings, rectangles, and fabric wedges. A gallery of antique string quilts provides the reader with additional ideas. Recommended for all quilting collections. Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

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