I am thrilled to announce that I will be teaching two quilt workshops at the 2019 North Carolina Quilt Symposium on May 2-5, 2019. I’m super excited to be in such wonderful company with some of the best quilters around! My Quilt Workshops I’ve created a short video about both workshops with tips for choosing [ …Continue Reading ]
Hello Everyone! In this post, I’ll show you the different modern looks you can achieve with the Patriotic Diamonds Modern Quilt pattern (on page 80) when you use a variety of modern quilt fabrics. I’ve also added a tutorial on adding an inner border –see the bottom of this post. And go HERE and HERE [ …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 ]
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 ]
Patriotic Modern Quilts Book Launch! I am very proud to announce that my newest book, Patriotic Modern Quilts, is now available for purchase at your local quilt shop and on Amazon. What’s Inside? 11 Projects Project Planning Pages –handy sheets that will help you organize all of your quilt projects Many projects with options for [ …Continue Reading ]
Hi Everyone, UPDATE: I’m now using EQ8 and I love it even more!! Check out these posts: Quilt Tutorial Modern Jelly Roll Race Tutorial Calculating Fabric Yardage. I often hear quilters say that they want to learn how to design quilts using the software design program called Electric Quilt. Too many quilters bought the [ …Continue Reading ]
Upcoming Modern Quilt Workshops I will be teaching two modern quilt workshops at the StitcherParadise Retreat, being held in Tampa FL from August 17-19, 2017. NO-SEW Hands On Demo: Fractured Disappearing 9 Patch. This is a project from Madly Modern Quilts, my first book, We’ll use paper and scissors and you’ll learn some of the [ …Continue Reading ]
Hello Everyone, I’ve been up to a LOT of work lately. Here’s one of the exciting things that I’ve been doing: Podcasting!! I am thrilled to announce that you can hear my interview with the marvelous Stephanie Kendron on her Modern Sewciety Podcast. Stephanie and I had a great time talking about my ‘lessons learned’ [ …Continue Reading ]
