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Positive Illuminations, February 2018

By: Heather Black

    “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…

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A Violeta Cover: How Artists from Different Disciplines can Inspire Quilts

By: Carolina Oneto

    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…

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Un Cover de Violeta: Cómo la obra de otro artistas, puede ser una fuente de inspiración para un Quilt.

By: Carolina Oneto

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…

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Same But Different

By: Michelle Wilkie

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…

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Cleaning and Stabilizing Vintage Fabric to Use in Your Quilts

By: Blair Stocker

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…

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Printed and Patched: Designing with Patterned Fabric

By: Malka Dubrawsky

Beautiful, modern print-focused fabric collections abound, yet oftentimes are overlooked in favor of solids or, if used, featured alongside a neutral background. What if you could create, modern, graphic, quilts using primarily or exclusively prints? This webinar will show you…

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Quilting Inspiration from 100 Days of Modern Quilting

It’s the fifth week of 100 Days of Modern Quilting and we will take a glimpse into a few of the things that inspire modern quilts. As with many other forms of art or craft, there is almost an unlimited…

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Missoni Inspired Quilt Tutorial

This quilt was inspired by the zigzag-based knitwear motifs of the Italian fashion house Missoni. The final quilt size in this tutorial will be for a small baby quilt but, can easily be altered to make a quilt of any…

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100 Dagen – Week van de Vormen – Voorbeeld Quilt 2

Vertaling door Marina Brito de Campos voor Quiltersgilde MQG, origineel hier. Neverending Story Cara van Me? A Mom? Vraag: Wat was de inspiratie voor deze quilt? Cara: Ik heb, door middel van Flickr Swaps en pyjama’s van TJ Maxx, …

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Modern Love, January 2018

By: Jo Avery

“I recently simplified a Pickle Dish Quilt by using a New York Beauty quarter block and half-square triangles. I thought I would try the same approach with a Double Wedding Ring pattern, basically taking away the fiddly lemon shaped centre…

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Lockup, January 2018

By: Riane Menardi Morrison & The MQG

This month is the first block study of 2018! In the 2018 series, we will explore 12 different modern blocks and the quilts that can be made using them. We’re starting with the Lockup block by Riane Menardi Morrison of…

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Holding a Member Quilt Showcase

By: Tamara King, Maria Cardenas, and Nicole Howe of the Portland MQG

Our 2017 Programs Co-Coordinators, Maria Cardenas and Nicole Howe, had the idea of creating a showcase of our members’ quilts that would take the place of one of our monthly meetings. We didn’t want to put any style restrictions on…

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