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<\/a><\/p>\nScott Murkin, no information to hand at time of writing.<\/p>\n
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I put up these two quilts to make the point about which I wrote to a member of\u00a0 Quiltart list this morning, which said in part:\u00a0 “….you referred to ‘Scott Murkin’s technique’, \u00a0and I thought\u00a0 “Hmmm, wonder what that is….”\u00a0 (I don’t get the popular quilt magazines and books these days so its possible to be out of touch with the latest)\u00a0 Anyway, it turns out it is freehand or improvisational\u00a0piecing, anyway!\u00a0 And when I went online to see images of\u00a0Scott’s work, there was at least one quilt there that looked like an adaptation and re-arrangement of blocks from one of my own bushfire\u00a0 quilts ”\u00a0\u00a0 – pictured above.\u00a0 Of course, it isn’t a copy,\u00a0its just that using similar colours and similar technique produces inevitably similar appearance<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“His” technique is\u00a0what I and many others learned\u00a0nearly 25 years ago from Nancy Crow – not that I ever called it ‘Nancy Crow’s technique’ because for her, technique has only ever been the means to the end of colour and design, and working through her long list of class exercises was only really possible via cutting and piecing freehand\/improvisationally.<\/div>\n
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But actually, it wasn’t her technique, either – it was developed by a Canadian quiltmaker, Marianne Strother, who Nancy always used to bring into the classes she was teaching at Houston and get her to show her students how to do it…and according to Marianne who told me this, Nancy repeatedly urged her to publish this ‘new technique’ which Marianne by her own admission never got round to doing.\u00a0 So Nancy in time just proceeded on teaching it herself and many began talking of ‘Nancy Crow’s technique’\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As we all know today\u00a0there are people working this way all over the world, and it has become a contemporary quilt making tradition if you can say such a thing.<\/div>\n
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So\u00a0it isn’t ‘Scott Murkin’s technqiue’ any more than my students could say ‘Alison Schwabe’s technique’ though\u00a0I always work that way, and\u00a0have taught many to cut and piece freehand.\u00a0 I’ve\u00a0no doubt someone uses that term to describe their own improvisational piecing.<\/div>\n
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