Make Modern Issue 41

Quilters come from all over the globe, with varying levels of experience and different areas of expertise. We come to quilting down different paths, for different reasons. But whether we have made 5 quilts or 500, we all identify as quilters. We are a diverse group and in this issue we celebrate that! MEET Augusto Garcia, a Spanish man who came to quilting with the pandemic; Geraldine Wilkins, a Black American woman who has been teaching for over a decade; and Kelli Marshall, who balances her quilting business with raising five children.

We MAKE that show-stopping cover quilt with clever curved piecing, a gorgeous rainbow baby quilt, a jelly roll lap quilt and more beautiful modern quilt projects designed to get you diving into your stash to quilt. We chat about fussy cutting English Paper Piecing (EPP), play with scale and proportion, discuss drawing your quilt plan, improv piecing and show you ways to use your stash for ‘not just quilts’! There’s a whole gallery of Foundation Paper Pieced (FPP) quilts curated by FPP Queen Kristy Lea from Quiet Play to inspire you. We MOTIVATE you to spread your love of quilting to the next generation with Sewing with Kids. And read our Editor’s letter for tips on how to spot a quilter in the wild.

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.