Overlapping Squares Block Tutorial This tutorial for a very basic block incorporates an easy to tackle improv piecing technique. Use any three colors, plus your background color to create this look of overlapping squares. Finished block: 15.5″ square Fabric requirements: Background fabric: (2) 5 1/2″ squares Center square fabric:… Read More
Improvisational Piecing from 100 Days of Modern Quilting Welcome to the forth week of 100 Days of Modern Quilting – the Week of Improv! Improvisational piecing (sometimes called free piecing or liberated piecing and shorten to “improv”) is just what it sounds like: sewing together fabric without always measuring and cutting to precise measurements. The freedom of piecing… Read More
Generative Design in Quilting: An Introduction generative.png Generative design is a fascinating cross between art and science, and we are starting to see applications of it in quilting. This webinar will introduce the concept of generative design and how it can be used to influence your design process. Mary will walk you through how… Read More
100 Dagen – Week van de Vormen – Introductie door Latifah Saafir Vertaling voor Marina Brito de Campos voor Quiltersgilde MQG, origineel hier. In deze serie onderzoeken we het toepassen van vormen in quilts, vooral in moderne quilts. Aangezien we slechts 7 quilts kunnen tonen, concentreren we ons op de meest populaire vormen in moderne quilts: vierkanten, cirkels, driehoeken en… Read More
Defrag, November 2017 defrag_full_social.png “Generative design is a fascinating cross between art and science, and we are starting to see applications of it in quilting. This quilt was created using generative design through a program called Processing. Each of the five rows began as identical copies of each other, with 36… Read More
Colored Filled Quilts Tutorial Alexis’s quilt, Flight is the is the featured quilt for the Week of Color Tutorial Round-Up. We’re sharing tutorials from generous quilters around the web that will help you make your own color-filled quilts. Flight by Alexis Deise Alexis’s thoughts on color: The choice of colors for this quilt… Read More
Improv Pineapple Log Cabin Blocks The log cabin block is ripe for modern reinterpretation and modern quilters have seized that opportunity. The traditional pineapple log cabin is up for a modern redo as well. The pineapple log cabin block is typically paper pieced, but this modern version is free pieced with stitch and flip triangles… Read More
Quilt Like an Artist Quilts are generally classified as material culture, objects made by people to suit their physical needs, rather than fine art, which is defined as creative art whose products are to be appreciated primarily for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content. While a quilt can be a useful item, the design… Read More
How Do I Quilt It? Most quilters understand how to practice machine-quilting designs on small fabric samples, but they often have trouble applying those designs to an actual quilt. In this webinar, Christa Watson will share her secrets for machine-quilting success, including adequate basting, choosing thread colors, dividing and conquering tasks, and learning how to… Read More
