Blog tour: Quilts Made Modern

I’m excited to be part of the blog tour for Quilts Made Modern: 10 Projects, Keys for Success with Color and Design by C&T Publishing. This is the latest book by authors Weeks Ringle and Bill Kerr of FunQuilts design studio. Here’s their description of the book,

160 pages of quilting A to Z. There are 10 never-before-seen patterns using a wide variety of techniques. In addition to pieced quilts, we show you how to tackle hand applique as well as machine applique. There are designs for solids as well as those for large-scale prints. We still design with some tone-on-tones in mind as we did in Modern Quilt Workshop but there are also hand dyes and wovens in the book. Weeks spent eight months hand-quilting one of the quilts because we wanted to show you a modern twist on quilting by hand. There’s even a modern take on reproduction feedsack prints.

We felt that it was important for the images to create an ambiance for the collection of quilts so we hired a commercial photographer to do styled shots of each of the quilts. To show the reader the crossover appeal to these designs, we shot the quilts in three different homes: a1914 bungalow, a modern loft and a 1920s apartment. You’ll see the timelessness of these designs and be able to imagine how great they’d look in your home, whatever the era.

Quilts Made Modern belongs in my sewing room right beside The Modern Quilt Workshop.

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Here’s the blog tour schedule:

1. July 25 WhipUp.net
2. July 26 Sew Mama Sew
3. July 27 CraftGossip.com
4. July 28 boltneighborhood.com
5. July 29 Generation Q Magazine
6. July 30 Connecting Threads
7. July 31 Craft Nectar