Ultimate Modern Quilt Block Collection by Daisy Dodge Daisy Dodge is a member of my local Modern Quilt Guild chapter. At a meeting, she mentioned that she had a book coming out and she was gracious enough to send me a copy. (FYI–I gave away this book in my recent library destash for my newsletter […]
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The Quilting Storyteller By Regina Abernathy Regina Abernathy is an artist and storyteller who has self published a very personal book. In her book, she draws from her life experiences to show how she has captured and preserved African American history through her art quilts I was impressed by the very intimate way that she
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Making Their Mark: Art By Women -Shah Collection edited by Mark Godfrey and Katie Siegel In my continuing effort to broaden my understanding of how women have played critical roles in the development of historical and contemporary art movements. My most recent purchase is Making Their Mark: Art By Women In The Shah Garg
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The Story of Art (Without Men) by Katy Hessel I follow Katy’s social media and I was very excited when she announced publication of her book. Website: Great Women Artists The exclusion of women (and other underrepresented groups) from the history of art and in the collections of our major and regional cultural
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An amazing book has landed on my desk a couple of months ago–and I am fascinated by it. Sewing & Survival is an historical overview of Native American quiltmaking that adds to our knowledge of historical and contemporary quiltmaking. (Purchase your copy here.) The author, Teresa Duryea Wong, is an accomplished quilt historian, writer, lecturer
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My favorite Sewlebrity is….Dr. Carolyn L. Mazloomi! Carolyn has been a champion for so many African American art quilters for many years. She has been a mentor to our entire community. We owe her a deep, deep debt of gratitude. And, the entire quilting and art community is richer and deeper and more vibrant and
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I had a great time teaching at Mountain QuiltFest in Pigeon Forge Tennessee this month. I taught five modern quilt classes and gave a lecture, “What Makes a Modern Quilt?”. Several of the classes used patterns from my book, Madly Modern Quilts . The Fibonacci pattern and the X block pattern can be purchased here.
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Hello Quilt Friends, I wanted to alert you that Craftsy is rebranding to BluPrint as of January 8, 2019. I thought I would make sure you knew that in case you downloaded one or more of my patterns from Craftsy in 2018. I highly suggest that you make sure you have downloaded all of your
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Hello everyone, My explorations as an Island Batik Ambassador continues and wow, I had fun this month! The Island Batik challenge for June was to make a modern batik quilt. Of course, this was music to my ears! I decided to make a modern batik quilt using the Parisian Curves technique from my book, Madly
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Modern quilt design principles are fairly new as an organized approach to quilting. So, it’s not surprising that many quilters are still somewhat confused. Let’s start with the basic question I hear over and over from quilters as they show their quilts: Is this a modern quilt? I don’t think this quilt is modern….. This
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