This month, the Island Batik challenge was secondary pattern play. So, of course, I made it Island Batik Modern Pattern Play! I returned to one of my favorite techniques–improvisational curved blocks that I call Parisian Curves. (Pattern and detailed tutorial is in my book, Madly Modern Quilts available online and at local quilt shops). This [ …Continue Reading ]
Submitting to quilt shows–many of us love doing it and others hate the thought of competition. Submitting to quilt shows can be fun or scary. In this post, I’ll share my thoughts on some of the factors to consider. I’ve been focused on designing and writing patterns and haven’t submitted to many shows for the [ …Continue Reading ]
Island Batik Box #2 has arrived! I love being an Island Batik Ambassador because we receive 2 boxes a year full of fun stuff. And, Island Batik also gives us challenges each month to stimulate our creative thinking. My 2nd Island Batik box was sent to me from the generous people at Island Batik with [ …Continue Reading ]
I’m honored that Danielle Palli, host of Birdland Media Works, featured me on her podcast series, The Artist Within. In this interview, I share tips for unlocking your own creativity as well as my lessons learned for getting a quilt pattern design business up and running. I had a lot of fun tlaking with Danielle [ …Continue Reading ]
Here’s the second in this series of Patriotic Modern Quilt Pattern Update posts from my latest book. You can use ANY fabrics to make these patterns–you are definitely not limited to red, white and blue. Let’s explore two patterns in this post. This time, I’m showing alternatives for TWO of the patterns. Strips & Stars [ …Continue Reading ]
I am very proud to announce that I will be teaching modern quilting workshops at the American Quilter’s Society QuiltWeek in Daytona Beach, FL from February 27–March 2, 2019. Signups will be up this fall. And, be sure to check out the contests for their shows–they welcome modern quilts. By the way, visit my Teaching [ …Continue Reading ]
Hello everyone, My explorations as an Island Batik Ambassador continues and wow, I had fun this month! The Island Batik challenge for June was to make a modern batik quilt. Of course, this was music to my ears! I decided to make a modern batik quilt using the Parisian Curves technique from my book, Madly [ …Continue Reading ]
Modern quilt design principles are fairly new as an organized approach to quilting. So, it’s not surprising that many quilters are still somewhat confused. Let’s start with the basic question I hear over and over from quilters as they show their quilts: Is this a modern quilt? I don’t think this quilt is modern….. This [ …Continue Reading ]
Modern traditionalism is one of the key principles in modern quilt design and it is one of my favorite jumping off points as well. So I was very happy to see that the Island Batik Ambassador Challenge for April 2018 is to use a traditional quilt block or design as inspiration. I chose the traditional [ …Continue Reading ]
I am happy to announce that my Selvedge X Modern Quilt Pattern has been published and is available on Craftsy as a digital download. We all love to save those beautiful printed selvedges. And, we really mean to use them someday in a special project. This pattern was designed to put selvedges to good use. [ …Continue Reading ]
