This specialty ruler - The Perfect Piecer - makes marking sewing lines on triangles a breeze! Basic rulers are important for marking the 1/4'' sewing lines.Thread conditioner keeps your thread tangle free - I just love the conditioner from Robot Mom Sews - it does the job and smells so nice!.The curved tips on these scissors make it easy to trim thread without clipping the fabric when you are burying thread tails when hand quilting. Snips (or scissors) are also key - you want something smaller to trim any dog-ears and snip the thread.I love piecing with a cream or light gray. Regular 50 wt quality quilting thread works well.Needles are inexpensive - experiment until you find one that feels comfortable in your hand and you can thread without issue. Other quilters like to use longer needles. Your choice of a needle is really a personal one - I like a size 9 quilting needle which is a short needle. This quilt is my interpretation of the Double Wedding Ring quilt. Still my favorite quilt of all time is Perfectly Imperfect - it hangs in my studio and I look at it every day. I also shared a couple of my quilts that went even further in embracing Modern Traditionalism. ( If you've never looked at these, check them out! ) So what is Modern Traditionalism? Think of it as a classic quilt or block design using modern techniques like adding negative space, alternate grid work, scale, asymmetry, cropping, disintegration, as well as using modern fabrics and/or solids.īesides my own quilts, I shared photos of QuiltCon award winners in the Modern Traditionalism category for amazing inspiration. I got excited when they got excited by thinking about how to set their blocks differently! While we have some incredibly talented award winning modern quilters in the guild, we also have a bunch of quilters who started out making traditional quilts, have fallen in love with the modern aesthetic but were struggling on how to make modern quilts. My quilts: Playful, Oh My Darling, Hand Pieced Rainbow & SpecialĪ few Sunday's ago, I had an opportunity to speak to my local modern quilt guild about the concept of Modern Traditionalism. Traditional blocks or modern blocks set in fun ways. I've made many quilts with blocks set in a traditional grid layout usually with sashing and borders.īut I also have made a bunch of block based quilts where I set the blocks in a non-traditional grid. I've been quilting for at least 20 years and I love making blocks.
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