LibRR2 Step 1 - Kathleen

Hi everyone,


I'm Kathleen, living in Los Altos, California (on the peninsula in No.Cal, south of San Francisco and north of San Jose).

This looks like a fun experience and I look forward to learning alot in the creative process.

Not really knowing what I am doing, I took a block from my reject pile, and tried to liberate it.  Unfortunately, as you will see, the structural problem with this block (failure to make beautiful points on the center diamond) continues with this exercise (humbling as it is, I decided to keep it). 

I started with this:

 I took the first cut:

Then got in the spirit and added more "pick up sticks":

 This is my end result for my center block:

Having looked at some of the other blocks, I realize that I should have considered cutting the block up and rearranging, rather than just cutting up and adding my "pick up sticks".  Or I could have put the block back together in a little less precise manner. 

That being said, I am growing to like this block and hope that I will be able to add other elements as we progress through the rounds.  And learn from the entire experience...

I look forward to sharing in your creative process as well as learning from each of you.  Please feel free to access my blog at:  http://www.californiadoodlesanddesigns.blogspot.com and join as a follower.  I would so appreciate it!

I almost forgot, my log on name is "Cakath".  Look forward to sharing with each of you.

LibRR2 Step 1 from Janet B.

Hello everyone, my name is Janet B and I live in Yorkshire, England.

I love liberated quilting but my style is probably more controlled than some members of the group. I love the style of Gwen Marston and enjoy making blocks in the liberated style rather than liberating the whole quilt! 

I often make my liberated quilts in the medallion style, building up with sections and borders so hopefully this Round Robin will work for me. 

I teach Patchwork and Quilting here in the UK and some of my classes have been working on Civil War quilts. My starting block for the RR was an orphan block that I had left over - some of you might recognise it as 'Birds in the air'.

 I started by chopping it in two but realised that I couldn't do much else except rejoin it with a strip in the middle!

 The next cuts were better as I could switch the sections around to get a much more interesting block.

 This block really needs to go 'on point' so I added some corners of more Civil War fabric.

I know this is not as liberated as it could be but who knows what could happen next?

Round Four Curves!

After fussing and fussing and not finding the way I want this, I finally settled on making this in an OK design and then getting rid of it.  So, I took the next step and made the initial cut and suddenly ... there it was!  Perfect, just the way I want it.  I'll skip the fabric I was going to put around that and the binding, too.  I'll just turn under the edges here and quilt concentric circles.  This is my Liberated Round Robin.  And now it's just the quilting to do.

-Wendy

First part

My first quilt block ever made was a Log Cabin block (circa 1975), and my first four quilts were log cabin blocks.  Last year my daughter was teaching herself by following Leila's blog and she was turning out amazing blocks, the first ones being Log Cabins.  So thought it would be a breeze, hmmm.   My quilt group is currently doing a shared contribution block of the month, and I was nominated for the first month. This was my 12.5" BOM but it's not flat!  It definitely needs liberating...

Remembering previous attempts at taking a traditional block, cutting up and making something new, and messing up totally,  this time much more caution...  just cut off corners diagonally...

and insert a mauve strip...

 Hmm, a bit too controlled...just add one more element...

 Good! -  still recognisable, but new!  Now about 13.5" square.

star into square

I had the idea of making something round,
so I started out with an asterisk block

and thought I'd add to it, make it more of a starburst 

After cutting again, turning the blocks around seemed more interesting, so I abandoned the starburst and went with the idea of a wonky square in the middle.

This needed something else, so I added triangles to make it a square in square. 

From circle to square---completely different from my starting idea.

Hope I can make it work with the second step.

June's LibRR2 Step One

Initial Blocks

I received these two blocks from Marie in the World Wide Swap last Spring - they were the only two traditional blocks that I could find in my stash....

I really like the points in the stars.... They are made of a HST but the second side has two equal pieces.

I decided to take the blocks apart - so as I was watching TV tonight, I ripped them apart (I felt so crafty while I was doing this!)....

So now I have all the pieces and have been working on rearranging them....

A swirl of fabric?

Will I put them in swirl going out to make a hurricane of fabric?  I saw some art in an airport in the past week (perhaps in Kingston Jamaica)- where there was a white pattern that swirled out on a white background that caught my eye.

Rows of Points?

Or will I make rows of the points separated by white blocks....?

Or will it be one long columns of points?

Column of Points?

I haven't decided yet - But wanted to be in on the party of posting things for the LibRR2 so am posting even before I decided how to resew these pieces!  I may just wait for Step Two before sewing - not sure now!  I just know I'm going to make this into at least a lap quilt!

Thanks again to Marie for these blocks to play with!

: )
June
http://quiltquest.blogspot.com/

my first post - wish me luck!

I've started my center block for this fun project. This is my first posting so forgive me if this posting looks wonky! I started with a LARGE block that I picked up from my quilt guild's "free" table.

I trimmed it down to reduce the amount of white space and added in some batik strips.

Here's the finished block

and here's the pile of bright colored strips I plan on incorporating into the design.

I got a little sidetracked playing with some of the fabric. Maybe I'll get to use them for the next step!

first round

May I add these? I am not sure if I have to do a quilt a month or a few blocks....? Please someone put me out of my misery :-(
Jane - UK

liberated legos?

OK, here's my progress.  I sewed 16 blocks together, then cut them apart, sewed them back together.

I don't think I'm done, needs some more liberating.  But I'm gonna wait and think about it.

The colors are a bit off because the camera in my phone isn't great.

First Round

Well, I had a collection of blocks that I chose out 4 from....

Of course, this is too plain......so I slashed two of the blocks and then sewed them all together...

Well, maybe it needs to be slashed again, diagonally through the two whole blocks! But what color should I insert to give it a little zing? I am open to suggestions!

BTW, I still have a number of blocks left that I can play with......

Pattilou--Round 1

I'm trying not to overthink this, as I want to add more.  I had these blocks from Clare from last year's Worldwide Swap.

And I rearranged them thinking that since they were block pieces I didn't need to cut them.

I had some hand dyed fabric that I had dyed some time ago.  I made my first block.

I'm leaving the angle in the upper right corner as I may want to add something later on.

So, that is my first round--now complete!
Pattilou (aka Pat F)

Linda Kay's Step One

I don't have much in the way of orphan blocks, so decided to go with the wonky house that doesn't quite go with the other wonky birdhouses for a quilt I have in progress.

So I sliced it and added some words from a fabric in my stash.  I may still add some borders around it, but haven't decided yet.  May wait to see what the next step is in the process.

Center - Round 1 Done

I decided to work with 2 different blocks and see which I like better at the end.   I had a pansy block left after not following directions and then I had several 2.5 blocks from a table runner and some pink swaps so here we go.

My First Round

I promise you - when you've spent hours planning what to do for everyone else and you get to start, it ain't as easy as it sounds.

I thought and thought and thought and eventually came up with this for starters.

Made up of pieces sent to me by Nancie V and Nann in the 2011 and 2012 Worldwide Swaps.

It grew a bit bigger and then I started slashing.

This is what resulted.

 

Umm - needs something else - a bit of Chartreuse Green perhaps?

I forgot how much fabric stretches when slashed. Nothing matches! That's liberated for you!

Looking forward to the next round.

Mary's Step I

Recently I decided to make a paper-pieced star but  it has been many years since I've used that technique, so I first made a "prototype." I just didn't want to risk my really good fabric from the US if I didn't like the design or couldn't manage the technique. For the prototype, I used material from my stash that I had purchased here in Panama and knew I could replace if necessary. (And for sure, the fabric selection in Panama is mighty slim!) I didn't put the final wide borders on the block the pattern called for since that posed no challenge. (But oh my goodness, paper-pieceing is so much more fiddledy than our wonderful, free-spirited Liberated Quilting!!) The good news is that this block made of totally uncoordinated fabrics might turn into Step I for our RR II.
Not such a pretty picture, right? 





So I chopped off the little navy flange then whacked a couple of times across the whole shebang and inserted curvy scraps. Next I diced the entire piece and flipped the parts left to right. Now what? 





Okay, add some sashing. But I'm still dreadfully unhappy -- how Fugly can it get?!! And I realize the turquoise is a very big problem: it's NOT 100% cotton since my hot iron has made it pucker! Furthermore, it has inadvertently ended up making a big X across the whole square - how did THAT happen? So I chop off as many big pieces of the turquoise as I can manage.

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Add a bit of green at a wonky angle and voila! I declare the block Step One -- hardly any resemblance to where it all began! Wheeee! Wonder what's next?