Fresh Quilting Episode 205: Matching Binding to Piecing by Sylvia Schaefer Marine scientist and quilter Sylvia Schaefer finishes off her quilts with multi-colored binding that perfectly matches the piecing in the quilt. Episode Handouts Matching Binding to Piecing 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
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
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
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
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
Who Gives a Flying FQ About Accuracy? Do you give a flying FQ about accuracy? While we love the freedom and creativity of improv-piecing, sometimes quilters require accurately pieced blocks for charity projects, guild block lottos, bees, planned projects of a required size, and preserving carefully pieced points. Fabric is expensive and time is precious; in this… Read More
Aviator’s Arrow, July 2017 Quilt blocks don’t have to be square! We already know that when you piece six equilateral triangles together, you get a hexagon. But what happens when you elongate that triangle? All of a sudden you have a different design. And what happens when you add a design to that triangle?… Read More
