Category Archives: Modern quilts

“Plus” mini quilts from September – 2020.10.25

I keep a spreadsheet with a listing of all the quilts I have made, including the year made, the name, the width and height. This makes it easy for me to determine which of my quilts fit the requirements for … Continue reading

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Off my design wall – 2020.10.18

Last week, I asked for advice from my readers on how I should finish the quilting on this one. I received a lot of comments, with a wide variety of suggestions for the quilting. Thank you so much to everyone … Continue reading

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A quilting dilemma – 2020.10.10

It was the end of July when I last posted about this quilt. I finished quilting the straight lines 1/2″ apart in early August and since then it’s been hanging on my design wall while I considered options for additional … Continue reading

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Colours of Summer – journal quilt – 2020.08.16

Last week, I started working on my quilt for the annual art exchange of the Fibre Art Network.  You can see my inspiration photos and initial fabric selection in last week’s post. As I said last week, I decided to just … Continue reading

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Quilting is underway – 2020.07.31

I’m about halfway done quilting vertical straight lines on my re-imagined quilt. I started quilting in the middle and worked to the right, quilting lines 1/2″ apart. I’m marking the lines with my yellow gaffer tape. Now I’m quilting from … Continue reading

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Pieced, layered, and basted – 2020.07.19

Last week, the top half of my quilt top was sewn together. This week, I finished piecing the bottom half. I was very pleased that when I sewed the top and bottom sections together, all the lines were straight. (I … Continue reading

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Redesigning my quilt top – 2020.07.12

I played around with the blocks on my design wall from last week (left photo below), and thought about what color to use for the background. I settled on a dark gray background for the upper left quadrant and light … Continue reading

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Reconstructing my quilt top – 2020.07.05

A few days ago, I chopped up my black & white & brights quilt top. It was 44 x 46 inches, which is bigger than I usually work. I think I will make it into a couple of smaller tops, … Continue reading

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Chopping up my quilt top – 2020.06.27

In my last post, I said I wasn’t entirely happy with my finished quilt top, and that I was going to chop it into 6″ squares. Once I made that decision, I quickly cut a couple of squares, so I … Continue reading

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Improv black & white & brights – more progress – 2020.06.13

Last week, I had 14 blocks pinned to my design wall over a background of solid gray fabrics. Since then, I’ve added 2 more blocks, and I’ve sewn black borders to 2 sides of each block. When I arranged the … Continue reading

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