Category: Inspiration of the month

Improvisational piecing is a technique that is at home in traditional quilting (think Quilter of Gee’s  Bend) as it is in modern quilting. For our inspirational feature for this month we’d like to share a wonderful modern improvisational quilt that was constructed by Lu Summers in 2012 and I believe was ultimately the foundation for…

Hello everybody. We are resuming our popular ‘Inspiration of the month’ feature after a short break and have some wonderful quilts coming up over the forthcoming months. Our August’ quilt is one of feedsacks, stars, a love arrow, a lot of purple and oakshotts all combined together expertly by Sarah from nohatsinthehouse.  Sarah calls this…

Our June inspiration comes from the very talented Leanne who blogs at shecanquilt. Leanne is not only terribly inspirational, she is also a wonderful person who by the way has no problem travelling all the way from Canada where she lives to London for the Fat Quaterly retreat! I have had the great fortune to…

Our second quilt in this new series on the London Modern Quilt Guilt blog is a quilt by Amanda Hohnstreiter called ‘Convergence’.   Amanda herself is a member of the Modern Quilt Guilt family but in Austin in the US and she made this quilt for a challenge by the manufacturer Riley Blake. Her only…

The LMQG would like to start a new feature this month where we share with our members and readership every month a quilt that has caught our eye and the we find particularly inspiring to the cause of modern and contemporary quilting.  To start we’d like to share with you the Feather Quilt made by…

For our January meeting on 12th January our challenge is to take a traditional quilt and make it modern!  The finished size should be 12.5 x 12.5 inches, if you can’t make the meeting do email a photo of your block to londonmqg@gmail.com and don’t forget to add your photo to the LMQG flickr group. …

In the pines by Denyse Schmidt With Christmas coming next week, I wanted to share some fantastic modern quilts.  I know there is little time to stitch a whole quilt, but just looking at these could inspire a last minuet quilted stocking, table runner or pot holder.  Some are patterns to purchase, tutorial or one…