Round 1 complete

 

This is how Round 1 ended for me :-) .

I'm not quite sure if I like the small yellow stripe, but I leave it as it is. For now I've only used my scrap bins, I'm curious when I'm going to have to use the 'real' stash .

Heidi

My Liberated Medallion

I'm very late to the party, thank-you for having me.
This is my centre, more than a block but I may not be able to keep up with all the rounds. Onto some triangulation.

Floral Fantasy

This photo shows my central block which is a Foundation pieced Flower.Floral Fantas

The 1st Border I did my triangles in Liberated Style, the colours of the Rainbow

Irene Vernon

Irene's Start

Round Robin

Round 1, triangles. Let me start by saying this is my first Round Robin. Ever. I decided to start this quilt with my newly acquired skill of invisible machine applique. So I started with rounded organic shapes. But when the call came for triangles, I was somewhat stumped. Triangles are straight three sided shapes with POINTS. How could I do that using invisible machine applique? Reverse applique? I changed to machine piecing for Round 1, what liberated this round was not drafting it and not paper piecing it. I just cut random triangles (and a few other shapes), then added some stripes for motion.   Sort of a quilt as you go theme,  it certainly woke up my imagination.  I could have fiddled on and on changing one more shape to become a triangle, but I liked the way it looked.  So I stopped fiddling.   I am ready for the next round.   ps. modified 6/2 to change the Round to #1!!!  Now I will be on the same "page" as everyone else.....

round 1 triangles

I completed round 1 today! I made spiky triangles out of 2"x6" rectangles. I am staying in the warm orange/red/purple range so far..it will be interesting to see if and/or how much I stray as we go on! Looking forward to June 10th!

Round #1 Completed

Instead of squares made with liberated triangles, I decided to work with rectangles; I split the rectangles unevenly and added liberated triangles to make the top and bottom borders of Round #1.
Before I attached these borders, I recut the light fabrics around the center shoofly block so that the block sits straight. Originally the light fabrics had surrounded the shoofly block with the "recut" technique so that the block sat at an angle. Now I wish I had left the shoofly block at an angle--but I'm sure this will work out fine.

I'm trying to use fabrics that are less traditional in design than I have been using recently. I can't escape the traditionals completely, because that's what I have, but so far I've worked in the brown-turquoise print plus the brown circle print. Ok, they aren't exactly wild, but I'm trying!

I'm looking forward to the next round. This is the perfect project to experiment with techniques and with "wild" prints.

Round 1 Complete

I have spent the past few days looking at quilt books, auditioning fabric, sketching, and just plain thinking about what I was going to do for Round 1. This afternoon I had an opportunity to spend time with my little center block and my sewing machine. I stared going in a totally different direction with the triangles and then all of a sudden, I realized sawtooth triangles had a dog t00th look---why not. My theme seems to be headed toward dogs and dots---so I decided to go with fabric that had dots and the yellow was added for a little spark. This was a true liberated experience---for all my books, auditions, sketching I just sat at the machine and let it happen. I think the "happy" center block still looks happy and I had fun. Looking forward to the June 10 round.

New member

Hi, I'm late to the party, but am happy to join :-)
I'm part of the Yahoo LibQuilters and read more or less regularly and post even less.
Here's my starting block:

I had just the inner block and to make it a bit liberate I added the dark blue fabric. I haven't any more of the green flowery fabrik and the dark blue fabric and will try to use up other fabrics in my stash. To get it under control :-)
I've already played around with the second round, here's my second photo:

I tried the b/w fabric because I thought the green/blue/yellow palette is a bit predictable.. We'll see.
Btw, the b/w scrap is from the package Kathy sent me .

And I would be happy to see you on my blog.  
( I have to admit I do not post very often )

Happy RR ;-)

Heidi

Liberated First Border Complete!

The first border is now complete.  I've "auditioned" many fabrics and used HST's that I had previously made from cast offs from other blocks.  I also tried a folded border inside the two borders.  Never done that before and I like how it looks.  We'll see when it comes to quilting whether I still like it or not.

Triangulations

Here's my Round One.  I may or may not add another round of triangles.  I have a few weeks to decide.

-Wendy

Fabrics

Here is my "starter collection" of fabrics for the round robin. I also have a polka dot which is being washed at the moment. I'm sure I'll be adding more as the quilt takes shape.

Nancie V's center

I'm using this lovely block from the Worldwide Swap, courtesy of Pamelaj. I'm collecting hand-dyes and batiks to match it.

June's Lib RR Center Block

I decided to follow Clare, Wendy and Jan's lead and to use material I received as part of the World Wide Swap.

"Scarlet Letter" Marie  sent me a lovely collection of in-progress crumb blocks that will make a great quilt.

Initially I was going to sew blocks to together and then trim and call that my block. But I wasn't sure I would have enough 'fabric' to carry it thru to the rest of the quilt.  My second plan was to make a circle with the materials, then I would be highlighting the fabrics, and I'd have space to do Free Motion Quilting!

It's been a long time since I've made any circles, so I had to look online for help.  I found a lot, but this clear tutorial really worked for me so I used her procedure to make the half circle that is at the bottom of the photo above.  I didn't remember sewing each quarter in two passes when I made circle before, but that extra step made it much easier to do than I remembered!

In real life there was not enough contrast with the grey, (And I've been using that shade of grey for my Friday Block Lotto blocks so I wanted to save that grey fabric for that quilt!) so I removed the stitches and pulled out some darker grey (it looks like blue in the photo).




I used the bottom of a cookie tin for the circle size - and I cut squares that were 7.5 inches for the background.

This photo shows the four pieces before they were trimmed.  For a while I considered adding material to make an "X" pattern, but then decided to stick with my original plan.

So here, finally, is my center or initial block for the Liberated Round Robin!

: )
June

Sara, Round 1

This Initial Block became:

Sorry to be so quick,  BUT

1) The Initial Block was out on my sewing machine, and
2) The spikey triangles were already in the Orphan Box, and
3) All the red/white HSTs were bonuses leftover from  Bonnie Hunter mystery.

So it all just FELL together.
[Don't you think the paisley does a good job of toning it down?  and hmmm... looks like I'm heading toward a rectangular shape.]

Sara