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Resources for Modern Group members
How to add a hanging sleeve
Click here to read the short information sheet from Festival of Quilts on how to add a hanging sleeve to a quilt.
The Guild website also has information on how to create a hanging sleeve... click here
2026 Postcards
What is a Modern Quilt? The Modern committee have pondered that question and created a set of postcards that we feel encompass the elements to define a modern quilt using example quilts from our recent Quarters Challenge.A Modern Quilt will usually have at least one or two of the following elements:
- Minimalism or simplicity
- Modern or bold colours in either or both solids and prints
- Asymmetry
- Improvisation
- Negative space or the popular emerging trends of double negative space when two colours are used in equal amounts
- Traditional blocks made modern by distortion and/or changing the scale such as a single block filling a large space
- Infinite edge by using a facing or binding which merges into the quilt top
- Alternative grid layouts
- Maximalism often using bold modern fabrics in prints of various sizes
Demonstrates 2, 3, 8 and 9
Netball Halftime by Jo Rycroft
Demonstrates 1, 3, 4, 5 and 7
Quarters SSCT by Jayne Emsden
Demonstrates 2, 3, 4 and 7
Josef's quarters on a sunny quarter day by Catherine Hunter
Demonstrates 2, 3, 6 and 8
Jazz Hands by Cat Brown
Demonstrates 2, 3 and 4
All the roads that lead me home by Margaret Logan
Demonstrates 3, 4, 6, 7 and 8
Where's my quarter by Shirley Collie
Demonstrates 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7
1/4" line drawing in fuchsia - inspired by Huntertwasser by Michaela Knight
Demonstrates 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7
Round and round in circles by Gill Howes
2023 Postcards
In 2023, the Modern Group commissioned Helen Howes to write a set of Postcards, displaying Modern quilts with instructions on the reverse.
The Modern Quilt Group is keen on passing on the skills we all have to the next generations of sewists.
Modern Curves
View and download the instructions for Modern Curves.
Hollow Boxes
View and download the instructions for Hollow Boxes
Hops and Roses
View and download the instructions for Hops and Roses
Tiger Tiger
View and download the instructions for Tiger Tiger.
Wonky Stars
View and download the instructions for Wonky Stars.
