My 'Not at Liberty' quilt is making steady progress, and I've completed a few blocks now. I'm searching through my fabric stash for material that resembles Liberty print, and also was a bit naughty and splurged on new fabric yesterday. But it's so pretty and so Liberty-esque. At £3.67 a metre it was also a bargain.
The blocks I've made are mainly quite soft colours, so I'm not sure how the red one is going to fit into the finished design.
Another view of them:
The edges on the horizontal and vertical lines of the Union Jacks are deliberately not turned under, and they're already fraying a little, but I'm happy with that. I like quilts that look worn, and anyway I'm going to quilt the blocks with rectangles over the centres of them when I'm assembling the whole thing so I think it'll be pretty hard wearing. I think sometimes with patchwork we get too fixated on producing something that's technically perfect and forget that some of our favourite quilts from past decades/centuries are the ones with the wonky seams and make do & mend attitude. The ones where the fabric was just what was available rather than specially bought. At least those were always the ones I gravitated towards!
I love liberty fabric - we used to have the liberty mill shop about 6 miles away from us and I went totally insane in their when they were closing down!
Your quilt is going to look fantastic - and I agree - my fav quilt is one my gran made from shirt tails!
Kath
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Posted by: Juicyfig.blogspot.com | June 06, 2010 at 01:00 PM