Welcome to our quilt patterns
Have you ever been new to a group and in a meeting, and they say something like, “For our seasonal gift exchange you can bring a mug rug between six and eight inches.” Are you looking for a simple but warm option?
Welcome to our first pattern release: Mug Home. This pattern has seven pieces, can be sewn as regular piecing, or freezer paper piecing. The house shape can lean right or left, and becomes a 7 1/4 inch mug rug (depending on trimming). Perfect for scrap piecing, or several from fat quarters.
This is a free download in honor of the Portland Modern Quilt Guild.
Two versions of mug rug
Really simple piecing
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We are working on larger quilt patterns, and will let you know via email, and social media. See image on right for our first full quilt pattern. Third size test almost ready to photo….
What we do
We design quilt blocks, quilting patterns, textiles, and fun projects to keep us sane. Gift bags, bookmarks, pieced patches for mending, signature blocks, logos, icons…..
Too many ideas, not enough time!
A Modern quilters apprenticeship
Sewing has been a lifelong passion for me, and while I made quilts from the time I was 17, I began my deeper involvement in about 2010. This apprentiship began with a trip to the library, and new ways of piecing….
Once apon a Christmas I made 5 lap quilts on this basic theme as gifts for friends near and far. I learned a lot about color, movement and border quilting. My favorite topic was quasi realistic free motion feathers, an exercise I still keep on the mood board above my long arm
Diagonal on The Blue
When my son was about 8 my sister introduced me to what she called “Stack and Slash; quilt as you go” and over the years I have made half a dozen of these really fun quilts. They are wonderful to study colors, contrast, movement, and quilting techniques. Most of mine have gone to friends and family.
Stack and Slash
This began as a guild project, one of my first. Use text to inform a stylized envelope block. But… I had a fun stack of precuts that I had bought for myself and my sister (the stack and slash instigator…) and decided they would be fun to use with the black on grey text print I had. A baby quilt later I added a rhomboidal piano key border, and it went to a colleague’s first baby.
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