Posts Tagged modern quilts

I have started on a few blocks for a new quilt. I’m making it for our bedroom. All these quilts, and I’m still yet to make us one for our bed! Not certain where I’m headed with them but so far so good!

Hi everyone! A few people have contacted me about the fact that they are starting branches of The Modern Quilt Guild in their area! Maybe you live nearby and want to join?  Just click on over or send an email to the people listed below. 1/20/10 EDIT: WE NOW HAVE A MAIN WEB SITE. Please [...]

This will be the last quilt that I finish in 2009. How do I know? I have zero going right now. I’ll need to remedy that soon. Been too busy with the holidays to get anything started recently. Meanwhile, the quilt! It was my Christmas present for my father. All Kona solids this time around [...]

Wish I had a more exciting name for this quilt (edit: I’ve named it April Retangles!) because I’m so happy with how it came out. I improv. pieced wonky rectangular blocks like I did with the Lantern Bloom quilt, using the gray to unify all the blocks. It’s a lap quilt, measuring 48″ x 59″. [...]

I’m leaving you for gray.  I’m sorry.  I hope it doesn’t hurt your feelings too much.  I’ll be back to visit a lot I’m sure.  But for now, I need to be with gray.  I hope you understand.  Look at my latest quilt top. Clearly we’re meant to be together. Love, Alissa

Here it is in all its super colorful glory.  I should note that the dark color is a chocolate brown, not black as it looks in the photos. This quilt is a commission and the Lantern Bloom fabric was requested.   This flickr photo, along with the colors in the fabrics inspired the quilt. It’s such [...]

Thank you all so much for all of your kind comments about the book!  The response makes me so happy. It just reinforces all of the ideas behind the book concept.  It’s going to keep me super busy over the next few months so you’ll have to forgive me if the blog mellows as a [...]

Some very happy news out of my world today! I’m thrilled to announce that I will be writing a book with Kristen, my co-host of Block Party and we are so excited. C & T Publishing will publish it and it’s going to be about YOU!  Ok, well, maybe not you specifically, but about all [...]

So fall was here. And then it got replaced by summer again. LA weather is weird. Anyhow – to stay in the fall spirit I quickly whipped up this pillow sleeve. The deer get all the props in Lush, but you can’t deny the trees!   That said, I couldn’t leave the deer out entirely… I’m [...]

A couple of questions came up about what my process of designing my latest quilt top is. The title of this post pretty much sums it up how I work.  I tend to wing it quite a bit! It started like this… Just a few random blocks that I made with no idea about how [...]