Make Modern Issue 28

A huge part of quilting is colour selection. This is a lot about picking the right complementary colours, playing with warm or cool, picking the right background to make your colours dance, or curating the perfect rainbow… there’s one often overlooked superpower – value. Never, ever underestimate colour value in quilting, that subtle difference in shade is what makes some quilts pop while others fall flat. We look at colour value in depth this issue, with a feature and accompanying project to test your newly-learned skills for getting that glow.

Also in Issue 28, we MEET Australian makers Moira De Carvalho from Quilt Talking, and Jane Kelly, the Editor of Make Modern magazine. We MAKE pixel quilts, mini quilts, get our geese on and tackle curves, modern applique and English Paper Piecing (EPP). We MOTIVATE you to think about the importance of colour value in quilts, and if you’re an animal person you’ll love our gallery of quilts featuring animals. There’s a guide to great quilt blocks for block swaps or quilting bees, the maths for equilateral triangle quilts, the importance of progress over perfection, a lesson on how to quilt paisley motifs, and we review the latest modern quilting books. The Medley Medallion Sampler Quilt runs in six parts through Issues 25 to 30.

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.