Styling 101: Perfecting the Perfect Flat Lay Grab your sewing notions and fabric for a lesson in perfecting the perfect flat lay photograph. Using your phone camera, Christopher will take us from drab to fab and give us tips and tricks on creating a dynamic photograph for social media. Read More
Zoom In: Exploring Cropping & Scale in Modern Quilt Design In this webinar, Riane discusses how to “zoom in” on part of a traditional quilt block and transform it into a modern quilt of any size using negative space and asymmetry. She also explores the differences between traditional and alternate gridwork, and some of the foundational elements of modern quilt design. Read More
Design Process: From the Initial Spark to the Finished Quilt Join Tara for a webinar all about the process of design. She’ll share her process of taking an idea and developing it into a cohesive modern quilt — and how she resolves a design if things hit a wall. She’ll also share how she handles creative ruts and, most recently, how… Read More
Graffiti Quilting with Karlee Porter Join Karlee and the MQG for a fun webinar where Karlee will show you all about the popular free-motion quilting technique, graffiti quilting. Graffiti quilting is the act of rebellion in quilting form — consisting of super dense over-stitching, taking and combining many different quilting motifs into one cohesive piece,… Read More
SONG QUILTS: A Celebration of Stitch and Song The “Song Quilts” project visually interprets folk music from four distinct regions of Russia and the United States: Appalachian Mountain Music, Cowboy Music of the Western Plains, Moscow Music, and Music of the Russian Arctic. Over the last year I have traveled across the United States and Northwest Russia interviewing… Read More
Creating Quilts with Meaning: Material, Form, & Content As quilters, we make design decisions all the time. Our choices of fabrics, colours, techniques, and subject matter make our quilts unique and meaningful. This webinar will help you answer the question, “What is this quilt about?” and help you make sound decisions when creating your future quilts, whether they… Read More
Cleaning and Stabilizing Vintage Fabric to Use in Your Quilts 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 back to life and sew them into your patchwork to… Read More
Printed and Patched: Designing with Patterned Fabric 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 how to curate and re-imagine prints for use in fresh,… Read More
Effortless Appliqué The art of appliqué is an essential tool for any quilter’s toolbox. From simple shapes to intricate motifs, appliqué opens new doors to endless creative possibilities. Join Shelagh as she shows you step-by-step how to create gorgeous appliqué designs and incorporate them into your work. She will cover everything from… Read More
Easy Fabric Dyeing: Create Your Own Solids and Tone-on-Tone Fabrics Sue Bleiweiss’s method for dyeing fabric produces a fabric with an unevenly colored surface — not only does it have a unique look, but it’s also super easy. In this webinar, you’ll learn how to create both solid and tone-on-tone fabrics working with procion dye, Jacquard color magnet and purchased… Read More
