It Might As Well Be Spring

A pattern from Quilts Made Modern by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr. Cotton fabric, cotton batting, and quilted on the longarm machine with cotton thread.

63 x 77

Modern Monkey Wrench

Modern Monkey Wrench was pieced using Anita Grossman Solomon's paper piecing technique. Stitching onto vellum I created precision points. The quilt appeared in Anita's Craftsy Class Quick Techniques for Modern Blocks.

In my haste to bind the quilt and send it Colorado in time for recording of the class, I applied the binding quickly, not realizing my seam was too wide, cutting off all the points in the outer blocks. I thought about fixing the binding ... but instead I'm using this quilt on my bed. Modern cotton prints, Dream cotton batting, and Aurifil thread.

87 x 94

Red Squared

Quilt pattern from the book "Quilts Made Modern," by Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr. This was my first modern quilt and I am hooked. For me, it's a more relaxed style of quilting. Modern quilt designs are known for having larger blocks and bright colors. Piecing goes along a bit faster. Even quilting this on the long arm in a large meander pattern was fun and easy.

69 x 69

Scarlet Garden

Floral fabric squares bordered with alternating deep red and orange red strips for six inch finished blocks. Heavily free-motion quilted on the longarm machine with feathers and a "garden fence" in the floral squares.

77 x 99

Yellow Square

Inspired by a Josef Albers painting I saw at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Albers painted dozens of color studies in this form. I used 4 yards of Cherrywood fabrics.

Quilted on my longarm machine using 6 thread colors, from taupe to gold to yellow and saffron. Quilted lines are one-eighth inch apart. I’ve figured out a way to quilt a modern quilt to within an inch of its life.

60 x 60