If you ask Heather Thomas, once you learn the basics and rules of quilting it’s fun to break away from tradition. Start your freestyle piecing with a little help from this video, and have some fun making unique, funky blocks. You may waste a bit of fabric, but the time you’ll save and the fun you’ll have will make up for any lost material. Here you’ll see how Heather goes about designing a one-of-a-kind quilt using freestyle piecing.
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Really enjoying this. Liberating – after current project where i had to really fiddle to adjust seam allowances to make correctly sized blocks. Thanks.
the rest of the quilt shown in this video maybe….https://www.nationalquilterscircle.com/video/how-to-piece-a-quilt-with-unusual-fabrics-003999/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a6198&vsoid=A6189&loginpopup=1
got to agree with Lesley – where’s the rest of the video? what am i missing?
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 🙁