Junior Guild Makes Quilt for #SoaringEagles By members of the Junior MQG of Broward County To tell you a little about ourselves, we are a high school class that is taught on four levels. During our level three course, we learn and execute the basics of piecing, quilting, and design that goes into making a… Read More
Scoop, March 2018 “Scoop plays with the idea of foreground and background, just ever so slightly. The placement of colors in an ombre arrangement and the repetition of the half circles keep the viewer’s gaze moving inward. I’m experiencing my first snowy winter in several years, and the colors for this quilt are… Read More
Orlando Modern Quilt Guild’s Quilts for Pulse Project: Our Experience Organizing a Large Charity Quilt Drive In response to the tragic Pulse Nightclub shooting on June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Florida, Orlando MQG established a quilt drive to collect quilts for the victims and families of those killed. Due to an incredible response from around the world aided by social media and news coverage, we were… Read More
Creating Quilts with Meaning: Material, Form, & Content As quilters, we make design decisions all the time. Our choices of fabrics, colours, techniques, and subject matter make our quilts unique and meaningful. This webinar will help you answer the question, “What is this quilt about?” and help you make sound decisions when creating your future quilts, whether they… Read More
Side Stripe, February 2018 The February 2018 Block Study is Side Stripe by Renee Tallman, a member of the South Bay Area MQG. It’s a half-square triangle block — with a twist! It features a fun stripe in the middle, making for a fun effect. Measure the blocks for consistency, or go improv! Find… Read More
Positive Illuminations, February 2018 “Positive Illuminations quilt was inspired by experimenting with the negative and positive space in one of my favorite quilt blocks, the churn dash. By using a high contrast color palette and rotating a few of the elements within the block an entirely new block was created, one that… Read More
A Violeta Cover: How Artists from Different Disciplines can Inspire Quilts For a Spanish translation, click here. October 4, 2017, was 100 years since the birth of Violeta Parra, who was a singer-songwriter, painter, sculptor, embroidered, and Chilean potter, considered one of the leading folklorists in South America and a great popular music disseminator of Chile. Her work… Read More
Un Cover de Violeta: Cómo la obra de otro artistas, puede ser una fuente de inspiración para un Quilt. Para una traducción al inglés, haga clic aquí. El 4 de Octubre del 2017 se cumplieron 100 años desde el nacimiento de Violeta Parra, quien fue cantautora, pintora, escultora, bordadora y ceramista chilena, considerada una de las principales folcloristas en América del Sur y gran divulgadora de la música… Read More
Same But Different In early 2015, a photo of a dress went viral on the Internet. It drove so much interest, as people could not agree on the color of the dress. Some saw black and blue, while others saw white and gold. Neuroscientists have studied human perception for many years, trying… Read More
Cleaning and Stabilizing Vintage Fabric to Use in Your Quilts Often, fabrics we salvage or save may be old, or possibly weakened from age and storage. But all is not lost! In this webinar, Blair will explain her strategies for preparing these fabrics to use in quilts. Bring these fabrics back to life and sew them into your patchwork to… Read More
