Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Liberty Ninepatch

I finished the Liberty Nine Patch.  If you could only feel how soft and silky it is.   It is 100% Liberty Tana Lawn, binding, backing and every last piece. 


It was made from a sample book (you can read how I got hold of that here) and any scrap in my stash which was big enough to cut 4 or 5 2½ inch squares.

The sample book was very useful as it included lots of unusual darks which were great for contrast.  Beautiful as Liberty is, I find it can look fuzzy from a distance if there isn't enough contrast. 

It's big - 72 inches by 84 inches.  I had intended it to be bigger but the sample book was running out.


Oddly I seem to have more fabric left than before - partly because through posting pictures on Instagram I was commissioned to make another Liberty quilt by a friend of a friend.  She requested pink with contrasting darks.  So I had to buy more, naturally. I'm piecing the back of that one now.

Linking up with Mrs Sew and Sow's Scraptastic Tuesday.   


10 comments:

  1. Oooh love Liberty and nine patches! Can there be a better combination? Thanks for linking up to #scraptastictuesday!

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  2. It's very pretty. I find that I'm not keen on a lot of Liberty prints on their own but put them all together and they're gorgeous.

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  3. Wonderful! Now I'm thinking I want to try making one.

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  4. I love Liberty fabrics, this is a lovely way of show casing them

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  5. It`s super cute and love all your fabric choice.Great job!

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  6. Beautiful finishes quilt, congratulations.
    Greetings,
    Sylvia

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  7. Oh how wonderful to see what you have made with the sample book. It somehow embraces the heart of quilt making to create such art out of fabric that has a 'past life.'

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  8. What a score that sample book was and you have done it justice. Why have those snippets of Liberty hidden in a book when they can be snuggled up in instead :)

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