Fantastical book block on Free Motion Mavericks

Welcome back to Free Motion Mavericks. This is Week 250! Isn't that amazing? Most of those weeks were hosted by Muv of Lizzie Lenard Vintage Sewing. Congrats!

Creating a fantastical book block

Since the last Free Motion Mavericks that I hosted, I worked on the appliqué book block. It started off as this, and had morphed into this (so far) →

The original foundation
paper pieced block

Adding some appliqué

Here's a look at the process.

I went through my stash of fun fabrics and came up with this layout.

Laying out the pieces

The next part was to sew it all down. I did use a little bit of glue to hold some of the pieces down before sewing them down with the darning or free motion foot.

Stitching them down 

It was then time to free motion quilt it.

If you're noticing a similarity in style with some of my other art quilts it's because the recipient of this one wanted it in the style of Morning Has Broken. You can check it out in the related links below.

Fantastical book is in the
style of Morning Has Broken

You can see the details of the image better in this photo.

A close-up of what's on the cover of the fantastical book

What I learned

• When I started taking fabrics out to audition, I was surprised by how small the space to fill was. I usually work with larger pieces, about 20"- 24". It made the choosing of fabrics more challenging.
• When I sew things down, I'm never sure how much to actually stitch it since I will then be quilting it. That's always such a subjective thing - and sometimes I get carried away with the stitching before the quilting.
• To sew the pieces down and to free motion quilt (FMQ) I used mostly polyester thread since these are the colours that matched the most. I'm still working on my collection of cotton thread, but really, I didn't see the difference, especially for a small project. In my opinion, the colour is more important than the type of thread, unless of course I'm using silk. 😊

Related links

• Book covers with Free Motion Mavericks, September 25, 2019
• Morning has broken - Art with Fabric Spring 2018, May 21, 2018

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We've had some great link ups here last time. I'm really sorry to say that the last two weeks were so crazy here that I didn't have time to check out everyone's posts until writing this up. I'm really looking forward to our Canadian Thanksgiving weekend to catch up on my blog reading and replying to your comments.

Last time, Laura of Slice of Pi went totally out of her comfort zone to make a quilted cell phone clutch, with a Kraft-Tex flap. It really is stunning - and the clutch is quilted! If you haven't read about her experience making this, you really need to read it!

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