Make Modern Issue 26

Some of the greatest stresses with quilting are when you have too many WIPs, you come back to a project and you don’t know where you were up to, or you leave your craft room in such a state that you can’t sew. Of course, a little quilty discipline and forward planning goes a long way to eliminating these problems. If quilting is your job, you have an important deadline on a quilt, or you’re part of a modern quilt bee, you really need to get yourself organised. Our Editor Jane – who confesses to being a procrastinator – will tell you that trying to be organised and up to date in your quilting really helps keep stress levels down and production up.

This issue, we MEET modern quilters Cathy Victor, Kelly Liddle from Jeliquilts, and Kristy Lea, Make Modern’s Creative Director and Director of Quiet Play. We MOTIVATE you to explore the community of modern quilt bees and brush up quilt bee etiquette. We MAKE a glorious rainbow of striking quilts, featuring arrows, curves, chevrons, ombre and the cutest baby quilt featuring animals. The Medley Medallion Sampler Quilt runs in six parts through Issues 25 to 30. We chat about milestone quilts, fabric shopping in Japan, fat quarter math, hand quilting with Suzy Williams, and how to store your fabric stash.

Make Modern is a digital modern quilt magazine available worldwide. Each magazine is 100+ pages long, jam-packed with modern quilt patterns suitable for beginner quilters to advanced, and articles about modern quilting guaranteed to make you smile, inspire you to quilt outside your comfort zone, and start making modern quilts today. Our beautiful patchwork magazine is published independently by a team of quilters and delivered as a PDF to read on your computer, tablet, or phone, easy to take when you go fabric shopping, with the option to print if you prefer a paper copy. See answers to frequently asked questions, and our refund and returns policy here.