Category Archives: quilting

Hello Sunshine

January 18, 2012 – 11:48 pm

One of the things we love about creating transparency quilts is the depth you see in the colors as well as the composition. Hello Sunshine appears to be a relatively straightforward baby quilt but in one place the overlapping colors make sense – a light over a darker fabric yields a shade in between. However, [...]

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the calm of Whisper

January 15, 2012 – 7:27 pm

Readers of Quilts Made Modern may remember that I spent 8 months hand quilting a quilt called Small Change made entirely with Cherrywood fabrics. Cherrywood hand-dyed fabrics are more expensive than mass-manufactured prints, but have a softness that’s just not found anywhere else. While the design thinking behind Small Change was the interplay among rich [...]

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making your own Madras

January 11, 2012 – 6:58 pm

Madras is one of the best examples of how careful fabric selection can create a very compelling transparency. You have to look carefully because although the two shades of blue are easy to see, it’s the light and dark pink that really make the transparency visually convincing. Whenever possible we’ve made the quilts in Transparency [...]

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coming up for air

November 21, 2011 – 1:15 pm

(exhale) Where do I begin? I got back from launching Modern Quilts Illustrated at International Quilt Market on November 1 and have been processing orders pretty much all day every day ever since. Seriously. Just as I’ve sent off that last box to Australia or Connecticut, the phone starts ringing with more orders. It’s been [...]

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Congratulations Myong!

November 11, 2011 – 1:56 pm

Myong is the winner of the Little Bits Quilting Bee giveaway! I’ll be emailing Myong directly and Chronicle will forward you your very own copy of this sweet book.

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