Heather Thomas tells you that once you learn the basics and rules of quilting it is acceptable to break away from tradition. Start your freestyle piecing career here and make original blocks look funky with less accurate piecing. You may waste more fabric, but you make up for it with the time you save. You will see how she goes about designing a quilt using freestyle piecing and see some examples done by her and others.
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geez would have been nice to see the finished quilt. Heaher say’s I’ll just grab the remaining pieces and show you and it will be done….well that’s just not fair 🙁
got to agree with Lesley – where’s the rest of the video? what am i missing?