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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…
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!…
The Knitting and Stitching Shows are the UK’s premier craft events for the general public with shows held in different locations around the country. They have a mixture of vendor stands, workshops, demos and textile gallery spaces. Last year…
The alternate grid is one of the most versatile tools in a modern quilter’s toolkit. Know how to use it, and we can create just about any design we can think of. In this lesson, we’re exploring alternate grids using…
Transparency quilts can surprise and delight us — and they are really fun to make. With some strategic color placement and design, we can create the illusion of overlapping shapes. In this lesson, we’re exploring transparency using a block called Layered…
Blocks are the foundations of many quilts. Blocks make quilt assembly easy, and they bring order and symmetry to the design. We love blocks (hey Block of the Month program!) but what happens when we design quilts without the block…
Asymmetry is featured in many modern quilt designs and is a hallmark of modern quilting. Use of intentional imbalance can lend real interest and uniqueness to a quilt layout. Be it with where the piecing is placed within negative space,…
