Here are some of my favorite quilt tools that help me save time and money….and keep my fingers safe! Do you have favorite tools? Post in the comments what it is and why you like it. NOTE: I purchased the items reviewed here with my own funds–no affiliate links. Check with your local quilt shop […]
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Hi Everyone, UPDATE: I’m now using EQ8 and I love it even more!! Check out these posts: Quilt Tutorial Modern Jelly Roll Race Tutorial Calculating Fabric Yardage. I often hear quilters say that they want to learn how to design quilts using the software design program called Electric Quilt. Too many quilters bought the
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Creating a Virtual Team to make a Charity Quilt for QuiltCon2017 In summer 2016, I put out a call on Instagram and to my mailing list asking for Modern Quilt Guild members who might be interested in joining a virtual team to make a QuiltCon charity quilt. My general idea was that members would decide
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Exploring Minimalism–my latest adventure in quilt design Minimalism is not usually my design choice—even when I try. I usually add more and more color, for example, when I’m designing a quilt. I’ve admired minimalism for years and decided I needed to challenge myself in this area. I signed up for a minimalism workshop with Season
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Welcome! And thank you for visiting my online home where I explore the wonderful world of madly modern quilts. I am a modern quilt designer, teacher and author. I am deeply in love with the freedom and creativity that modern quilting offers quilters of any level and any type. The world of modern quilting embraces
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Online Learning for Quilters Series I’ll occasionally post information about resources for online learning. Most of these resources are for a fee–after all, we can’t get everything for free! These are my personal reviews of the online websites. Please feel free to post your own experiences with each one–but if you have feedback about things
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Book Signing and Demos I will be holding my first official book signing and modern quilting technique demos at FabricSmart –a wonderful local quilt shop located at 5401 Gulfport Blvd S, Gulfport FL 33707. Phone: 727-914-8850. The book signing will take place on Sunday, July 24th from 1 to 5 p.m. At 2:30 p.m., I’ll
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My Madly Modern Quilts book is published!! I’ve been working on a book about modern quilts for about two years and now I can see the results of my labor. Talk about doing a happy dance–champagne and french fries and chocolate for everyone!! OK–that’s a weird combination, but those are some of my favorite foods.
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Hi Everyone, I’ve been absent from this blog for waaaay tooooo looooong……smile…. But, I’ve been super busy and that’s no excuse, I know. I’ve been doing everything from attending QuiltCon to teaching workshops to working on quilts for deadlines to attending a Quilt Judge Certification Workshop (more on that in the future). Thought I would
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I had a great time last week posting on www.52Quilters.com. I felt responsible for the feed so I pushed myself to post frequently–and I discovered that I enjoyed writing more often. I stepped out and discussed some of my views and experiences as a modern quilter. See my post on my beliefs about Modern
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