Make Modern Issue 57 is here!

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Whether you’re here to advertise in our e-magazine, email newsletter, on our socials, or you would like to submit a pattern or article idea, you have come to the right place! We are quilters who are passionate about the quilting industry and love working collaboratively to spread the love.

Advertise With Make Modern Magazine

Make Modern magazine is 100% owned and operated by a team of Aussie quilters. But because it’s a digital magazine, our readership is international – with most of our readers residing in the USA, Canada and Australia. Make Modern is a great place to advertise your quilt business – fabric, sewing machines, notions and courses – we are quilters, so we know what other quilters love! If your business is quilting and you would like to share with our engaged audience of quilters, we would love to chat advertising with you.

At Make Modern magazine we keep advertising a small part of our business because who wants to read a magazine that’s full of adverts?! In saying that, ads help to keep our business viable, and we love sharing our favourite products and businesses with our community. Adverts are clickable, making it really quick and easy for readers to visit your website. Back issues of Make Modern are available on our website and remain popular long after they are released, so adverts remain in circulation indefinitely. We offer competitive advertising rates, starting at AU$150, with discounts for multiple bookings. 

Get in touch with our Business Manager Lara to request a copy of our Media Kit and secure your advertising booking. We would love to work with you to showcase your business to our community of thousands of quilters. 

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Submit A Pattern Or Article to Make Modern Magazine

Make Modern is Australia’s only modern quilt magazine. Written by quilters, for quilters, our magazine is published every two months in collaboration with a huge team of international quilt designers and read by thousands of quilters from over 70 countries around the globe. We welcome pattern and article submissions all year but schedule projects up to a year in advance. If you would like to join our team of makers, please download and read our guidelines carefully before submitting your pattern or article idea.

Download Submissions Guidelines

Submission List for Make Modern Magazine Patterns

Once you have had your submission accepted, refer to the following list before submitting your project files:

  1. Mark the Contributors Deadline in your diary. This is the date you will need to submit your final project instructions and photos.
  2. Write your pattern. We require clear, concise step-by-step instructions for your project. Download the Pattern Template and use it to fill in your instructions. There is no need to add formatting, just a simple word document is best. Please do not insert pictures into the document. We have basic instructions included for techniques such as basting and binding so don’t include these unless you wish to showcase your method. We may change the wording of instructions to suit the style of our magazine.
  3. Take your photos. Contributors are required to submit their own project photos. Please don’t send us your quilt. We require a minimum of four photos of your finished project in high res (full sized), with at least one portrait style photo for your project pattern cover (inside the magazine). Please include photos of the finished project and closeups of special techniques or key areas. If you need to include step-by-step photos of parts of your project, please take them on a light-coloured background (e.g. white cardboard, not your cutting mat). See our Quilt Photography Hints & Tips here.
  4. Create digital diagrams (if required). Label your diagrams “diagram 1”, “diagram 2” with direct reference to these in your instructions. Submitted diagrams as .jpg or .png files.
  5. Create templates (if required). If your pattern requires applique or foundation piecing templates, ensure these fit on a 7 ¾” x 10” page for easy printing. A ¼” seam allowance is to be included. A 1″ test block is a useful addition as printers can be inaccurate. Include a diagram on how the block is assembled. Submit templates as .pdf files.
  6. Take a good headshot of yourself. A photo of you standing in front of a finished quilt, holding a quilt, or sitting at your sewing machine works really well.
  7. Write a one to two sentence blurb about yourself and add your social media details.
  8. Send your finished project files to our Creative Director Kristy.
  9. Optional extra: If you would like us to feature you on our blog, you may like to write a guest blog post with some extra images of your project. Blog posts should be 300-500 words long and include 3-5 square images of your project. You could talk about how/why you designed your project, how you quilted it, the fabric you used, anything that you would like to tell our readers about the design process. If you have written other patterns, you may like to mention those in your blog post too. See our blog for examples. Submit your guest blog post as a separate .doc file. Be sure to include links to your blog or website. Send your guest blog post to our Business Manager Lara.

Contributor Deadlines for Make Modern Magazine

  • Issue 57 (Mar 24) – 26 January 2024
  • Issue 58 (May 24) – 26 January 2024 (note the early deadline)
  • Issue 59 (Jul 24) – 24 May 2024
  • Issue 60 (Sep 24) – 2 August 2024
  • Issue 61 (Nov 24) – 20 September 2024

Business Partners

Thanks to our 2024 Business Partners who help us to publish the magazine we all love. Please show your support by visiting their websites. If you would like to work with us, please email our team.

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