About Gwen Marston
Gwendolyn Joy Marston was an American quilter, quilt teacher, lecturer, and author who championed a style of quilting she called "liberated quiltmaking". She encouraged modern quilt makers to break away from using commercial patterns and to learn to design their own unique pieces of quilt art. Later, Marston authored a biography, Mary Schafer: American Quilt Maker, that was reviewed by library journals and won the Michigan Notable Book Award. Marston created hundreds of quilts using different techniques: hand and machine piecing, hand and machine applique, and hand and machine quilting.
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