Happy New Year and welcome to 100 Days of Modern Quilting!
Get ready for a lot of beautiful modern quilts coming your way. Starting tomorrow and for the following 14 weeks we’ll be posting every single day right here on The Modern Quilt Guild blog! Here’s what you get to look forward to:
Week 1: Week of Shapes
Focus on quilts featuring different geometric shapes (squares, hexagons, circles, etc.)
Week 2: Week of Colors
Focus on color schemes, rainbow quilts, etc.
Week 3: Week of Blocks
Focus on block-based quilts and reinterpretations of traditional blocks
Week 4: Week of Improvisation
Focus on improvisational piecing techniques
Week 5: Week of Inspiration
Focus on different sources of inspiration and how they’re interpreted into quilts
Week 6: Week of Composition
Focus on different kinds of compositions, use of negative space, etc.
Week 7: Week of Prints
Focus on quilts that effectively use print fabrics
Week 8: Week of Solids
Focus on quilts that effectively use solid fabrics
Week 9 : Week of Using What You Have
Focus on scrap quilts and repurposed materials
Week 10: Week of Techniques
Focus on quilts made using different popular online tutorials (Ticker Tape, String Quilts, Mod Mosaic, etc.)
Week 11: Week of Collaboration
Focus on quilting bees
Week 12: Week of Participation
Focus on challenges and quilt alongs
Week 13: Week of Tools
Focus on tools that make modern quilting easier
Week 14: Week of Machine Quilting
Focus on different styles and techniques including long arm vs. finishing at home
Each week will feature 7 different modern quilts that represent the topic. We’ll also include tutorials from around the web on each topic, and a brand new tutorial each and every week!
This series of posts will educate, inform and inspire. We hope that after 100 days of posting you’ll have learned a lot about modern quilting!
Before we get started, we wanted to make sure you’ve all read our post that answers the question “what is modern quilting?” If you haven’t read it yet, please take some time to check it out. You can find it here.
Welcome to 100 Days of Modern Quilting from The Modern Quilt!
January 1, 2012 at 3:07 am |
That will be eye candy when all those lovely quilts gets posted. Can’t wait.
January 1, 2012 at 3:19 am |
This is a great way to begin the new year, I am looking forward to a quilt a day!
January 1, 2012 at 7:02 am |
I’m so excited to see all these wonderful quilts! I love the way you have organized it by theme.
January 1, 2012 at 7:11 am |
Can’t wait!
Can’t wait!
CAN’T WAIT!!!!
January 1, 2012 at 7:14 am |
I’m looking forward to following these 100 posts!
January 1, 2012 at 7:39 am |
Excited! This sounds super awesome!
January 1, 2012 at 3:17 pm |
we are goïng to follow you in The Netherlands.
January 1, 2012 at 3:17 pm |
So looking forward to this. What a great way to start off the New Year. And in advance I would like to thank you all for all your hard work on putting this together. I know it must have taken many hours of planning by all.
January 1, 2012 at 5:04 pm |
Looking forward to following along!
January 1, 2012 at 9:17 pm |
Wonderful News!
My quilting class can really benefit from all of these
topics
January 2, 2012 at 3:56 pm |
Looking forward to this! Heard about from the Zombie….mhawww!
January 2, 2012 at 4:21 pm |
Terrific! Looking forward to it! I have been sewing over the Christmas 2011 break, and have just posted in Dec. on my blog, too. Happy Stitching, All!
January 2, 2012 at 4:51 pm |
May I ask why the only ‘quilting’ being focused on is machine quilting and for that matter doing it on a short-arm machine versus a long-arm? By first glance it feels like the actual quilting process is almost tertiary to everything else that goes into quilts.
January 2, 2012 at 5:54 pm |
Hi Candace!
Well I’d say that most modern quilters machine quilt on their home machines. As we all grow and develop as quilters, some of us are learning and using long arms more and some are falling in love with hand quilting. But there’s no denying that in terms of percentages, most of us machine quilt on our home machines. Hope that answers your question! Thanks!
January 3, 2012 at 7:50 pm |
Hi
is there some way to auto follow? (for those of us whose brains sometimes forget stuff)
is there subscribe somewhere?
thanks
January 3, 2012 at 7:57 pm |
Hi Toni,
Depending on the blog reader you subscribe through you should just be able to add http://www.themodernquiltguild.com manually. Hope that helps!
January 4, 2012 at 7:50 am |
I cant wait. I blogged about it on http://www.welovequilting.com/blog hopefully we will get some more lookers!
January 4, 2012 at 7:57 am |
Can’t wait!
January 4, 2012 at 8:29 am |
How fun is this?! Thank you for doing this! Kim C ^i^
January 4, 2012 at 9:24 am |
Posted about this on the Bakersfield Modern Quilt Guild blog and Facebook page. I’m excited to get the modern quilt projects going!
January 4, 2012 at 11:58 am |
I want to play too! Sounds like fun.
January 4, 2012 at 12:53 pm |
Sounds like an interesting and informative 14 weeks
January 4, 2012 at 12:54 pm |
This soounds like an informativ and interesting 14 weeks. Can’t wait to get started
January 4, 2012 at 3:13 pm |
great job
January 5, 2012 at 2:44 am |
Looks great – can’t wait.
January 5, 2012 at 6:12 am |
Such an interesting project. Look forward to aeeing it unfold
January 5, 2012 at 6:49 am |
My head is spinning – this is such a great series the pace is killin’ me, everyday I want to start a new project that I see!
January 5, 2012 at 8:29 am |
Interesting. I would like to read and study this information.
January 5, 2012 at 2:00 pm |
A neat idea!
January 6, 2012 at 5:09 am |
The above comments say it all. Fantastic!!!!
January 6, 2012 at 10:13 am |
THis is something to lo9ok forward to./ thank you!
January 6, 2012 at 10:16 am |
I will be watching with interest!
January 6, 2012 at 1:05 pm |
Thank you for all of the planning, organizing, writing and photo sorting that you most certainly have taken on in starting this series. It is mind boggling and SO MUCH appreciated!
January 6, 2012 at 7:05 pm |
Is this something that will come evry day through the email? Or do I need to sign up?
January 6, 2012 at 11:08 pm |
Christina, just check the blog daily and there will be a new post. There are already half a dozen posts up. Check them out!
January 7, 2012 at 1:33 am |
I am new to this. How do I to go look at what (?) to see all the quilts. I am not very interested in leaving comments but very interested in the quilts, designs etc. Dee
January 8, 2012 at 10:06 am |
Hi Dee, It’s simple, just check the blog each day for new posts. Thanks!
January 9, 2012 at 7:30 am |
I am a newbie quilter, and this is wonderful. I will be back every day.
January 15, 2012 at 5:28 pm |
Thank you so much for doing this. I just started searching the web the other day to look for ideas for the aesthetic I have in my head, and here I found this tutorial. I had these visions for a more evolved look than what I normally see in books and magazines, but couldnt put it all together. With your help, I will be able to create my own designs with modern quilting principles. It is rare to find something so thoroughly prepared like this program will be. Thank you.