On Modern and Traditional There are a lot of people in the quilt world who dislike the term modern quilting. While I often find the term inadequate to describe what is actually going on with a new generation of quilters, there is another word I find equally problematic: traditional. It is a word used… Read More
Improvisational Piecing from 100 Days of Modern Quilting Welcome to the forth week of 100 Days of Modern Quilting – the Week of Improv! Improvisational piecing (sometimes called free piecing or liberated piecing and shorten to “improv”) is just what it sounds like: sewing together fabric without always measuring and cutting to precise measurements. The freedom of piecing… Read More
100 Dagen – Week van de Vormen – Introductie door Latifah Saafir Vertaling voor Marina Brito de Campos voor Quiltersgilde MQG, origineel hier. In deze serie onderzoeken we het toepassen van vormen in quilts, vooral in moderne quilts. Aangezien we slechts 7 quilts kunnen tonen, concentreren we ons op de meest populaire vormen in moderne quilts: vierkanten, cirkels, driehoeken en… Read More
Colored Filled Quilts Tutorial Alexis’s quilt, Flight is the is the featured quilt for the Week of Color Tutorial Round-Up. We’re sharing tutorials from generous quilters around the web that will help you make your own color-filled quilts. Flight by Alexis Deise Alexis’s thoughts on color: The choice of colors for this quilt… Read More
Quilt Like an Artist Quilts are generally classified as material culture, objects made by people to suit their physical needs, rather than fine art, which is defined as creative art whose products are to be appreciated primarily for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content. While a quilt can be a useful item, the design… Read More
Using Glorious Colors from 100 Days of Modern Quilting Color, glorious color! As Helen tells us, “Don’t be afraid of using colour. I love the joy of colour against crisp white. As the Crowded House song goes, ‘colour is its own reward.’” DQS #10 by Helen Simpson As quilters, we have all the colors of the… Read More
Half Rectangle Triangle Tutorial Half Rectangle Triangle Tutorial (Updated May 2013) This tutorial is for Half Rectangle Triangles or HRT’s. This will add another tool to your quilting toolbox and hopefully, you will be able to create some fun modern quilts using the HRT. When this tutorial was first posted it didn’t have… Read More
Death, Grief, and Quilts It is not often that something hits you completely out of the blue, but this phone call did: my stepmother, my second mother for the past 40 years, was diagnosed with brain cancer. Inoperable, aggressive, irreversible. The diagnosis had come that morning and no one was sure if she had… 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
