You may or may not have noticed, but I accidentally pieced this block upside down! Hahaha, oh well, there are no quilt police here! If you are planning to quilt this block in the same way you can just quilt it upside up.
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And here we are done! The final block of the modern series! By the end of this quilt, I would say my diagonal piano key has come a long way as well as my ovals. I'm very happy with this personal growth. I have learned so much about modern blogging and even more about video editing...
Okay, so there aren't any groundbreaking ideas here, but holy was this fun to quilt! I love making medallions. This was such a relief after last week's blunder. I got a good rest and came back fresh. I regularly walk away from my machine and sleep on a design or idea. I...
Well, this block... is my least favourite. I know! You didn't expect me to say that did you? Anyhow, here is some real talk, sometimes you lose, sometimes it doesn't work, but we have to move on. Could I go back and pick this all out and redo it, yeah, but will I? No. I think...
I like the composition of this one, having two frames the same. One is in the purple part of the quilt block and the other is in the grey triangles. It was time to try and do those ovals again, this is a design that I really do need to work on. Quick tip; I always find it best...
As I have been quilting these blocks trying to stay true to the 'modern style' I just couldn't bring myself to hide the shape of this star. In many of these blocks, I am making my own shapes and trying to make the quilting the star of the show (yes pun intended). But here I decided...
Okay I know I might be saying that this block is my favourite every week, but comon! This one is cool. It took me quite a lot of doodling to come up with this idea. But I'll tell you a secret... I accidentally put the pearl chain in the wrong line (d'oh!), But that's the beauty of...
My favorite aspect of modern quilting is the ability to add new interest to traditional blocks. Readers of this blog series may have seen my concept drawings before. I spent a lot of time figuring out the basic shapes but delayed deciding on the spacing and filler placement. If I had made these...
This was a challenging one. I feel it's important to emphasize the significance of leaving spaces between fillers. Our eyes need visual breaks in complex designs. Initially, I had a pearl chain in the white triangles below the curved dot-to-dot, but it made the design too busy, so I took...
As I was quilting this block in the video the thread path didn't make much sense, lol. I was still trying to decide what to quilt! I struggled mostly with the grey parts of the block but as you can see I think it came together just fine.
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Quilt block number three took some serious time! This block took 34:53 minutes to stitch out. If you watch the video you will notice that shortly after starting I had to rip some stitches out. My longarm machine (Handi Quilter Avante) skips stitches sometimes when I haven't retimed...
Block number two was really fun to quilt. I have had a lot of fun coming up with designs for this series and can't wait to share more (video editing takes quite a while!). If you want to jump straight to the video you can do that HERE please like and subscribe it really helps me out. ...
