What to Include in Your Quilt Labels After decades of studying historic and contemporary quilts, I have become more and more of an advocate for labeling your quilts, especially as adding a label or signature seems to be a final step that often gets overlooked. When I ask quilters why they do not label their quilts, I’ve… Read More
Quilting Best Practices Lead to Success If you have been quilting for a while, there’s a good chance that you’ve picked up one or two habits along the way that you should try to avoid. Some of these habits appear fairly harmless like sticking a pin in your mouth. It’s no big deal, right? Everybody does… Read More
Book Review: A Single Thread By Tracy Chevalier A Single Thread introduces protagonist Violet Speedwell; a post-WWI spinster, desperately trying to escape the clutches of her oppressive mother and find some meaning in her life as a single woman destined never to marry. Following her move to Winchester, it’s not long before Violet chances upon a group of… Read More
Member Spotlight: Rebecca Roach At the age of twenty-four, health issues kept Rebecca Roach at home. She suffered from gallbladder complications and often felt very ill. There were occasions when Roach couldn’t do much at all and relied on crafting shows on HGTV to quell her anxiety, pain, and nausea. During bedrest, Roach… Read More
#MQGKeepCalmandSewOn No. 04: Designing Mini-Minis Mini-mini quilts are a great way to explore design in a low-risk way. They can be gifted as wall quilts or mug rugs, or even traded among friends. Mini-mini quilts are a great tool to unlock your creativity or break through a creative slump!… Read More
Then & Now: Community and Creativity with Jenifer Dick “I joined the Kansas City Modern Quilt Guild in 2010 and have been happily making modern quilts ever since!” – Jenifer Dick For Jenifer Dick, the MQG is all about community, creativity, and going outside of your comfort zone. We are so honored that this “modern traditionalist” chose… Read More
#MQGKeepCalmandSewOn No. 03: Flour-Resist Surface Design Creating unique fabric designs can be achieved with a few simple items that can be found in a kitchen pantry. Using flour-resist, boring fabric can be painted to give a crackled or layered appearance. With this technique, a base fabric is covered with a flour paste, allowed to dry, then… Read More
#MQGKeepCalmandSewOn No. 02: Stitch Resist Dyeing Learn to work with stitch resist dyeing, a simple Shibori style dyeing technique that allows you to create loads of different repeats! Dyeing can be a great project to do with kids – think of the tie-dye experiments of your childhood – and you can employ your sewing skills… Read More
#MQGKeepCalmandSewOn No. 01: Strip Piecing For week one of the #MQGKeepCalmandSewOn initiative, your weekly PDF download focuses on Precision Strip Piecing, without using foundation papers or templates. Individual member, Steph Skardal, shares some of her favorite tips and tricks as well as a pattern to create your own strip-pieced block to build your skills. Read More
Then & Now: The Story of Rene Martinez Starting the Orlando MQG The Orlando MQG has been celebrating its “ten years in the making”! Founder and Board Member, Rene Martinez shares with us the excitement of how it all began and her story of how #quiltguildchangedmylife. How/why did you become a modern quilter? Once upon a time, there was a quilter who… Read More
