2016 Liberated Piecing Mystery All Day Saturday July 16, 2016 · 2016 Liberated Piecing Mystery All Day Saturday July 16, 2016 ... Make your own Liberated Piecing Panel(s) BEFORE

2016 Liberated Piecing MysteryAll Day Saturday July 16, 2016

Fabric Requirements and Clue #1 Cindy Carter 2016, Original Pattern by Colin Brandi

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Your FIRST mystery clue:

Make your own Liberated Piecing Panel(s) BEFORE the mystery begins.

2 sizes:

Baby/Lap Quilt: 48” by 60” - Uses (1) Liberated Panel

Twin/Comfort Quilt: 60” by 84” - Uses (2) Liberated Panels

Please send any questions to [email protected] or leave a comment. Thanks.If you email me photos of your panels I will be happy to share them on my blog as inspirations to others.

Fabric Needed – This is a fat quarter friendly pattern

Make your own Focus Fabric – A Liberated Panel – A variety of fabrics – Mine will be wild animal prints, solids and a cut up panel.

Use a minimum of (8) fabrics. I used (18) in mine. You need strips that are between 1.5” and 4” by 21” . You will be sewing these strips into a rectangle measuring 21” by 42”.Accent Fabric – Mine is blackBackground Fabric – Mine is a tone on tone fabric, neutral tans color.

Stonehenge Kids Rainforest Romp by Northcott Assorted wild animal prints. Most from the Clothworks African Savannah collection.Batiks are from Island Batik.

WOF = Width of Fabric. Usually 42” to 45”. Varies by fabric.

Cindy Carter 2016 2016 Liberated Piecing Mystery –All Clues in One Document 1


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Focus FabricLiberated Rectangle

Accent Fabric42” WOF works best with this quilt.

Background Fabric42” WOF works best with this quilt.

Baby/Lap Quilt48” by 60”

A variety of strips. Use a minimum of (8) fabrics. I used (18).(1) 21” by 42” rectangle

½ yard 2 ¼ yards

Twin/Comfort Quilt60” by 84”

A variety of strips.Use a minimum of (8) fabrics. I used (18).(2) 21” by 42” rectangles

¾ yard 3 ½ yards

Other Tools Needed:

1. 12.5” Square Up Ruler OR you can make your own by cutting a 12.5” square from a piece of cardboard such as a file folder.

2. Marking pen or pencil. Choose one that does NOT leave permanent markings. I use tailor chalk.

3. Starch

Directions for Making your Liberated Panels:

1. Cut a variety of strips from your chosen fabrics. Vary the width from 1.5” to 4”. 2. Trim each strip to 21”.

3. Sew strips together in a way that is pleasing to your eye.

I am making the larger sized quilt which uses 2 panels.The smaller quilt requires 1 panel.

Please remember that this is Liberated Piecing so just have fun assembling your panels.


Below is a photo of my panels.


Cutting Directions

We will be cutting the panels.This will happen during the mystery.

1. STARCH Your FabricPress ALL your fabric using STARCH. I used a medium amount of starch. A light starching may not be enough to stabilize the fabric.

Starch your liberated panels, accent fabric and background fabric.The most important for heavier starch is the background fabric.

2. TRIM your accent fabric and background fabricWOF = Width of Fabric. Usually 42” to 45”. Varies by fabric.

1. Your fabric measures 42” (including selvedges). Don't trim. Leave selvedges on the fabric.

OR

2. Your fabric measures larger than 42” Trim one side of the fabric so that it measures 42”.

3. CUT your Accent FabricBaby/Lap Quilt.Cut (8) 1.25” by 42” rectangles

Comfort/Twin QuiltCut (16) 1.25” by 42” rectangles4. CUT your Background Fabric5 pins – straight or safety. Label 5 pieces of paper. I used sticky notes. A, B, C, D, EWhen you finish cutting each set, pin the note to the set.

Baby/Lap Quilt.SET A: Cut (2) 5.25” by 42” rectanglesSET B: Cut (2) 4.75” by 42” rectanglesSET C: Cut (2) 4.25” by 42” rectanglesSET D: Cut (2) 3.75” by 42” rectanglesSET E: Cut (5) 6.5” by 42” rectangles

Comfort/Twin QuiltSET A: Cut (4) 5.25” by 42” rectanglesSET B: Cut (4) 4.75” by 42” rectanglesSET C: Cut (4) 4.25” by 42” rectanglesSET D: Cut (4) 3.75” by 42” rectanglesSET E. Cut (7) 6.5” by 42” rectangles


2016 Liberated Piecing MysteryAll Day Saturday July 16, 2016

Clue #2 Cindy Carter 2016, Original Pattern by Colin Brandi


Cut each panel(s) into (4) rectangles according to the diagram below.



Organize your cut fabrics into sewing piles.I rolled each of my piles into a little bundle to keep it separate from the other piles.

Small Quilt Large Quilt

Pile #1 (1) 3.5” by 42” panel from page 1(2) 1.25“ by 42” accent fabric(2) 5.25” by 42” background fabric

(2) 3.5” by 42” panel from page 1(4) 1.25“ by 42” accent fabric(4) 5.25” by 42” background fabric


(2) 4.5” by 42” panel from page 1(4) 1.25“ by 42” accent fabric(4) 4.75.25” by 42” background fabric





One of my sewing piles Here is the bundle


2016 Liberated Piecing MysteryClue #3

Cindy Carter 2016, Original Pattern by Colin Brandihttp://carterquilter.wordpress.com/

Sewing Your Bundles One at a Time.This avoids confusing the similar looking but different sized pieces.

Double check the length of your liberated panel strips. Mine grew a bit from pressing. They should measure 42”.

Use 1/4” seams throughout.Make sure you pin the seams before you sew.

1. Sew an accent fabric strip to each of the background strips along the 42” edge. Press to the accent fabric.

2. Sew a liberated panel strip between two accent fabric edges from Step 1. Press to the accent fabric. See photo below.

For the smaller quilt you will have (4) units and for the larger quilt you will have (8) units.

Each unit measure 14” by 42”. If the 14” measurement is not exact DON'T TRIM.





Creating Liberated Blocks12 for the Small Quilt24 for the Larger Quilt

1. Cut each of your panels from Clue #3 into (3) 14 inch squares

2. Make two piles of blocks. Pile #1 and Pile #2For the Small Quilt – 6 blocks in each pileFor the Larger Quilt – 12 blocks in each pile

Put a variety of blocks from each of the sizes into each pile.



3. Draw around each block and trim using scissors.Do one pile at a time.

Pile #1 Pile #2

a. Place template so the right top corner of the template is high.

a. Place template so the right top corner of the template is low.

b. Draw around the template in each block

b. Draw around the template in each block

c. Using a scissors cut on the drawn lines in each block.

c. Using a scissors cut on the drawn lines in each block.

d. Put all blocks back into Pile #1.

d. Put all blocks back into Pile #2.

I had to do a slight modification to one of my blocks because of a rotary mistake.I decided that it would be safer to use scissors.




Sew Your Blocks Together –

Smaller Quilt – 12 blocks3 columns with 4 blocks in each column. Press seams joining blocks up in Columns 1 and 3. Press seams joining blocks down in Column 2.

Larger Quilt – 24 blocks4 Columns with 6 blocks in each columnPress seams joining blocks up in Columns 1 and 3. Press seams joining blocks down in Column 2.

Lay your blocks out on the floor, or bed or design wall so that they look pleasing to you.Sew the blocks together to form the columns first. Then sew the columns together nesting the seams.





The Final Clue Cindy Carter 2016, Original Pattern by Colin Brandi


Borders –

The borders are made from the remaining 6.5” by 42” background fabric cuts.

Small Quilt -(5) 6.5” by 42” cuts

Step 1. Take one of these and cut it into (4) equal piecesStep 2. Sew each of the pieces from Step 1 to one of the remaining 6.5” by 42” piecesStep 3. Trim each of these units to 6.5” by 48.5”

Side BordersStep 4. Sew (2) of the units from Step 3 to either side of your quilt. Press to the border.

Top and Bottom BordersStep 5. Sew the other (2) units from Step 3 to the top and bottom of your quilt. Press to the border

Large Quilt -(7) 6.5” by 42” cuts

Side BordersStep 1. Take (4) of these. Sew (2) strips with two of the cuts in each stripStep 2. Trim each of these strips to 6.5” by 72.5”Step 3. Sew to either side of your quilt. Press to the border.

Top and Bottom BordersStep 4. Cut (1) 6.5” by 42” cut in halfStep 5. Sew each half to the two remaining 6.5” by 42” StripsStep 6. Trim to 6.5” by 60.5”Step 7. Sew to the top and bottom of your quilt. Press to the border.



Small Quilt -

This was my “test quilt”.

Instead of making my own liberated panels I used a striped fabric.

I didn't have enough gray fabric to dothe borders so I borrowed an idea from some liberated quilters, Freddy Moran and Gwen Marston.

They use a lot of directional fabric intheir borders and sashes.

Large Quilt -

I made this quilt using African fabrics in my liberated panels.

A friend is celebrating her 50th birthday soon and just returned from an extensive trip to Africa.

I think she will like it.


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2016 Liberated Piecing Mystery All Day Saturday July 16, 2016 · 2016 Liberated Piecing Mystery All Day Saturday July 16, 2016 ... Make your own Liberated Piecing Panel(s) BEFORE