I was anxiously awaiting the release of Rayna’s new book and wasn’t disappointed. Like her previous book, Create Your Own Hand-Printed Cloth, this is a process book. It doesn’t contain patterns, template or “projects”. What it does contain is inspiration and permission to play and create without fear of the quilt police – no ¼” seam allowances required, no matching of seams. The book contains clear, detailed photographs and Rayna’s writing style is easy to read and understand. Her emphasis is on working intuitively, trusting our instincts and erasing the word “mistake” from our vocabulary. I love Rayna’s disregard for color wheel terms like analogous, complementary and split complementary; instead she suggests going with what looks and feels right. Throughout the book, Rayna’s emphasis is on helping us create “original” quilts. The icing on the cake is that this book is a great scrap/stash buster with lots of ways to use up all those odds and ends we have been collecting for years. ( )

"Create Your Own Free-Form Quilts" by Rayna Gillman is a great book for budding art quilters, beginning quilters, and quilters who just don't follow the 'Quilting Rules'! Gillman gives you the freedom of using batiks, hand-dyed fabrics, commercial fabrics, hand-printed fabrics and leftover blocks and UFO's (unfinished objects), all in one quilt.. This is definitely a book for green quilters. It's also a book for angry quilters, because you get to sew and then, cut it up, and if you want, you can cut it up some more! Create Your Free-Form Quilts gives you ideas of what to do when you have finished cutting, the use of colors, and putting it altogether. Don't worry if you can't find a pattern to use. Make one yourself! And you probably won't have to buy any new fabric! (Oh, that's not so good, is it?) But, you will save $$$. The quilt ideas in this book are fun and just think, the quilts you make will be completely yours!
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