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20 Jul
MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild)

Curved Piecing: Beyond the Drunkard’s Path MQG Webinar

I'm just dropping in with a quick note today to let everyone know that I will be doing a webinar with the Modern Quilt Guild on July 30th at 2 pm Eastern / 1 pm Central / Noon Mountain / 11 am Pacific. I will be discussing curved piecing; specifically what you can do beyond just the Drunkard's Path...

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07 Apr
MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild)

Design Freely with Inkscape {MQG Webinar}

The Modern Quilt Guild is organizing weekly content to be delivered to its members in the form of 2 webinars and a PDF download each week in what they are calling the #MQGKeepCalmandSewOn series. On Thursday from 1-2pm Central, I will be doing a live webinar about installing and using Inkscape, a free and open source professional vector graphic...

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Fresh Quilting
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29 Dec
Life, MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild)

Fresh Quilting Episode 206

This is just a quick note to say that the second segment I filmed for Fresh Quilting begins airing later today! Learn how to create special effects through design or using big stitches on Fresh Quilting episode 206. It airs on the Fresh Quilting website starting at noon on Friday, December 29, 2017, and runs for 7 days. 206 – Transparency and Big Stitch Aviator and quiltmaker Yvonne...

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14 Dec
MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild)

MQG Modern Monthly BOM

Each month the Modern Quilt Guild sends out a newsletter called the MQG Modern Monthly to its members. It contains a quilt of the month pattern, information on how to sign up for free webinars, a block of the month and quilt pattern, and more! I am really excited to share that I created the December Block of the...

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Fresh Quilting Behind the Scenes
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23 Jun
MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild), Teaching

Fresh Quilting

Have you heard about the new TV series focused on modern quilting, Fresh Quilting?  If you do watch Fresh Quilting TV, I am excited to say that I was invited to be on the show! I taped my segments on Tuesday, and I will share when I get final details about when the segments will air later this fall (don't worry,...

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17 Mar
MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild)

March Block of the Month: Inversion

I just wanted to pop in with a quick update today. If you are a member of The Modern Quilt Guild, you can get access to the new Block of the Month lesson (including block tutorial and quilt tutorial) today, which just happens to be based on my block design, Inversion (note that you must be a MQG member and...

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MQG
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11 Sep
MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild)

Modern Quilt Guild Webinar Review

Last night the Modern Quilt Guild (MQG) hosted yet another wonderful webinar. Shea Henderson, of Empty Bobbin Sewing Studio, gave a wonderful talk about the Ins and Outs of Pattern Writing. If you are a MQG member and would like to see previous webinars, you can find them on the Resources tab of the MQG community site (after you...

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Positive Nap Quilt - Pieced Top
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25 Jun
MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild), QuiltCon 2015, Quilts

Positive Nap Quilt {Pieced Top / WiP}

Even with all the QuiltCon 2015 registration distractions yesterday, I was able to finish piecing the blocks for the Positive Nap Quilt. I really enjoyed spending time arranging the blocks. I wasn't sure it was going to be possible, but I was able to keep a fabric from repeating in each row and column. Even better, I was able...

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QuiltCon 2015
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24 Jun
Life, MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild), QuiltCon 2015

QuiltCon 2015 Registration

I knew that registering for the Modern Quilt Guild's upcoming mega awesome and exciting QuiltCon 2015 was going to be an interesting process with plenty of life lessons in patience. I was basing this assumption on how quickly the hotel rooms sold out for the event earlier this year (a whole year in advance!). With that in mind, I carefully...

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Shooting Star
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14 Feb
MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild)

SewDown Portland – Sunday

Shooting Star: A Modern Traditionalist Mini I really was not sure what to expect from Lee Heinrich's "Shooting Star" class. She was definitely prepared and ready to talk about her passion for creating beautiful traditional blocks/quilts with decidedly modern twists. We learned two different ways to make flying geese. And she taught paper piecing (yes, I believe I was the only...

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You + Me Block
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12 Feb
MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild)

SewDown Portland – Saturday

Improv Round Robin There were 4 fabulous instructors at SewDownPortland. We had a 3 hour class with each instructor over 2 days. On Saturday, I had my first class with Sherri Lynn Wood who blogs at daintytime.net. Her class was a twist on Improvisational Quilting in which we sewed a round robin. Which meant we first created a block as...

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SewDown Portland Name Tag
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12 Feb
MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild)

SewDown Portland

I had a great weekend at #SewDownPortland. The rare snowstorm that affected the area did not seem to dampen anyone's spirits. I made it home (a day later than originally planned...) with 5 new projects. I can't wait to share them with you! The tire tracks in snowy downtown Portland streets reminded me of tumbling blocks! I was so thankful to...

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Yvonne (Quilting Jetgirl)
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30 Jan
MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild)

QuiltCon 2013 Linky Party

The Modern Quilt Guild has a post about connecting the people going to QuiltCon (it's so soon!), and I wanted to participate! Here I am: And the five things about me… 1) It was super hard to pick out a photo of me to post. I was all gung ho to participate and then I almost didn't because I couldn't find a photo I...

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MQG
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21 Oct
MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild)

QuiltCon Block Challenge – Finished Raffle Quilt

While the blocks I submitted to the QuiltCon Block Challenge were not selected for the raffle quilt, I have to say that I am very excited with how the finished raffle quilt turned out and how many wonderful submissions there were! I might just love the pieced backing the most!! The entire process of reading the daily posts of all the submitted...

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"Solar Flare"
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09 Jun
MQG Event (Modern Quilt Guild)

Blocks for QuiltCon Block Challenge

  The Modern Quilt Guild is hosting "QuiltCon" in Austin, TX, next February. Michael and I got married in Austin and I really am hoping to be able to attend QuiltCon. Until August 15th, blocks of 12.5" by any size can be submitted to the QuiltCon Block Challenge, and I really wanted to participate. The guidelines for the block challenge are to...

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