Charity by Carole Lyles Shaw, Fresh Quilting Episode 206 Learn to work with a virtual quilt group to create a quilt for charity. Episode Handouts Charity Handout PDF… Read More
Fresh Quilting Episode 206: Combining Hand & Machine Quilting by Riane Menardi Modern quilter Riane Menardi combines hand quilting with machine quilting to create high-contrast designs with depth, texture, and movement. Episode Handouts Combining Hand & Machine Quilting Handout PDF Sponsors … Read More
Fresh Quilting Episode 207: Tokyo Trends by Luana Rubin Artist and world traveler Luana Rubin shares quilts from the Tokyo Quilt Festival and discusses global fabric and color trends. Episode Handouts Tokyo Trends Handout PDF Sponsors… Read More
Slow Improvisation: Improv Piecing with a Specific Theme in Mind Join Heidi Parkes for a 45 minute lecture on her 2016 QuiltCon award winning quilts, “Places Unfold” (1st for Handwork) and “Night Flight no. 1” (2nd for Improvisation). Both quilts were improv pieced on the theme of travel, and Parkes will describe her process in detail, from the initial ‘spark’… Read More
What to Do with Vintage Quilt Tops: Suggestions from a Preservation Perspective Thanks for joining me these past couple of weeks for my quilt preservation series. If you missed them, my earlier posts covered Quilt Storage and Quilt Display. Today I would like to talk about vintage quilt tops…let me tell you why. A few months ago, a neighbor approached me with… Read More
Mod Economy Square, August 2017 This month we’re exploring foreground and background with the Mod Economy Block designed by Rebecca Severt of the Baltimore MQG. Learn to make the block, plus get a bonus design lesson and quilt pattern in this month’s Block of the Month! August 2017 MQG BOM Block… Read More
So You’ve Set Up a Local Guild — What Next? You may have read my first article about setting up an MQG a few months ago, encouraging quilters who don’t have a guild near them to set up their own. It was something I decided to do when I returned to the UK last year, and I want… Read More
Exploring Minimalism Minimalism can be defined as “made with an extreme economy of means and reduced to the essentials of geometric abstraction.” – Guggenheim Minimalism in Art In the 1960s, minimalism as an art movement emerged in America. Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, and Sol LeWitt produced works of art that… Read More
Positively Transparent, August 2017 Positively Transparent explores transparency within a modern plus sign design achieving a layered effect to the plus signs. The original Positively Transparent measuring just 16″ x 18″ was displayed at QuiltCon 2016 in the Small Quilts category. The mini quilt was started in a workshop with Lizzy House focusing on… Read More
