100 Days of Hexagons: Blocks 31-40 and Sliver Inserts
Another ten days have passed, and ten more blocks of my 100 Hexagons are finished! With this batch, I attempted to make a few blocks that are lower contrast and/or incorporate fewer pieces. This will...
View ArticleAngled: A Modern Meets Modern Mini Quilt
Towards the end of 2021, the International Quilt Museum issued a challenge in conjunction with their exhibit, Modern Meets Modern. They asked participants to create a 16″ square mini quilt in response...
View ArticleCentral Ohio MQG Community Outreach Quilt
Each year the Modern Quilt Guild puts out a call for Community Outreach Quilts for a special exhibit at QuiltCon. The MQG provides a color palette and theme, and the guilds or groups of individual...
View ArticleInspiring Cheerful Textile Art with Hue Year’s Resolution
The beginning of the year brings calls to join many fun and inspiring challenges. Since I dive heavily into my 100-day project at the beginning of each January, I rarely participate in any other...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Celebrate a Successful New Year’s Resolution!
I shared the first three weeks of my Hue Year’s Resolution Project a few weeks ago. The project encourages artists to start the new year by creating five small weekly projects focusing on a single...
View ArticleGive Yourself Permission to Innovate: How I Made Triple Silk Translucence
When an art form has been around as long as quilting, it is challenging to discover new ways of innovating within the parameters of traditional techniques, especially when you’re also working within...
View ArticleCan an “Ugly” Color be Successful? A Surprising Mocha Mousse Quilt
In December 2024, Pantone announced our current color of the year: Mocha Mousse. I was not thrilled, to put it mildly. There is plenty of brown in nature (I spend half the year looking at brown fields...
View ArticleInnovation on Tradition: Making Hexagons with a New Perspective
Each year, the Great Wisconsin Quilt Show issues a challenge within their contest to create quilts with a specific theme. Whereas most quilts at the show are on display for a few days, quilts in this...
View ArticleHow I Made a Unique Abstract Mini Quilt Using Natural Inspiration
Implementing constraints in your design process is one of the best ways to encourage creativity, so when one of my quilting groups did a challenge earlier this year, I was excited to participate. This...
View ArticleUsing a Quilt to Inspire a New Design: Combining Appliqué and FPP
I gather inspiration for my quilts from a wide range of sources, including nature, architecture, and aspects of daily life. However, I rarely use contemporary quilts as design inspiration- unless...
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