Piecing Large-Scale Patchwork Quilts.
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eVideo

English

2015-03-24 15:03:10

Heather Jones is a designer, modern quilter, and author of the new book, "Quilt Local: Finding Inspiration in the Everyday." She lives outside of Cincinnati, Ohio with her husband Jeff,a painter and professor of art at the University of Dayton, and their two young children. Those three people are her biggest supporters, as well as her greatest sources of inspiration. Heather is the founder and former president of the Cincinnati Modern Quilt Guild and she recently finished her first line of modern quilting patterns. She isoften inspired by everyday places and things that many people wouldn't even notice (think an old metal silo or a painted grid in the parking lot of a big-box retailer), and she isalways excited by the challenge to translate that inspiration into her work.Three of her original quilts were chosen as winners of the Modern Quilt Guild's Project Modern Challenges, a year-long national quilting competition. Heather has a great respect for the art of quilt making and she loves to bring a modern twist to traditional patterns.

Modern quilter Heather Jones loves to play with scale, and in this class she shows how to enlarge a traditional quilt block so that a single block becomes the entire quilt top. Heather demonstrates this technique by creating a 72-inch square version of the Fly Away quilt block, though this formula can be used to enlarge any quilt block you like. Heather takes you through the process of scaling up a traditional block design on paper, and then shows you how to piece it together to create a bold, graphic quilt top.

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