Welcome! And thank you for visiting my online home where I explore the wonderful world of madly modern quilts. I am a modern quilt designer, teacher and author. I am deeply in love with the freedom and creativity that modern quilting offers quilters of any level and any type. The world of modern quilting embraces […]
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Online Learning for Quilters Series I’ll occasionally post information about resources for online learning. Most of these resources are for a fee–after all, we can’t get everything for free! These are my personal reviews of the online websites. Please feel free to post your own experiences with each one–but if you have feedback about things
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Madly Modern Quilts — New materials uploaded! Thanks to those of you who have already Madly Modern Quilts–and thanks to all the future buyers out there! Just wanted to remind you that I have posted some additional materials such as coloring sheets and more detailed assembly instructions on my website. Go here and click the
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Changing Quilt World–An Icon Dies and Modern Magazines Emerge! After 47 years, Quilters Newsletter Magazine is being discontinued. Wow…that is stunning news…. This magazine, along with Quilting Arts, really helped me understand the quilt world when I started making quilts back in the 1990’s. I read every issue of both magazines to learn techniques. I
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Book Signing and Demos I will be holding my first official book signing and modern quilting technique demos at FabricSmart –a wonderful local quilt shop located at 5401 Gulfport Blvd S, Gulfport FL 33707. Phone: 727-914-8850. The book signing will take place on Sunday, July 24th from 1 to 5 p.m. At 2:30 p.m., I’ll
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Here’s a tutorial for choosing fabric colors for your quilts with an online tool called the Moda Color Palette Builder by Playcrafts that you can find on the Moda Fabrics website. We can all get into a color rut. I know that I have certain go-to color palettes that, if I’m not careful, will
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Blog Hop Give-Away Winners!!! The winners of the fabric bundles in my blog giveaway are Marian, Janice and Jen. Congratulations to all of you and I can’t wait to see what you create with the charm packs and fabric fat quarters. And, yes…I definitely included some of my favorite Moda Grunge™. Click the link to
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African American Quilters represent a significant percentage of traditional, modern and art quilters in the USA. African American quilters work in every quilting category–and not all African American quilts are improvisational. Here are a few important African American quilters resource books that I suggest you check out if you would like to learn more about
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The 2016 New Quilt Bloggers Hop: The Sewcial Network This spring, I signed up to participate in the 2016 New Quilt Bloggers Hop run by Quilting JetGirl and LateNightQuilter. There are 17 of us who will be posting about our dreams, projects, lessons learned, favorite stuff and more. As one of the relatively new quilt
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My Madly Modern Quilts book is published!! I’ve been working on a book about modern quilts for about two years and now I can see the results of my labor. Talk about doing a happy dance–champagne and french fries and chocolate for everyone!! OK–that’s a weird combination, but those are some of my favorite foods.
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