The Austin Modern Quilt Guild |
Each year, the Modern Quilt Guild challenges its local guilds to create quilts based on specific themes. These quilts are displayed in a special gallery at QuiltCon. The sale of the quilts is donated to a different charity or cause each year. Find out more at the official QuiltCon website. |
Prompt: There are so many great ways to use half-square triangles to experiment with different repeating shapes and secondary patterns. AMQG's own Events chair Kelly Casey designed this year's quilt top using a clever combination of HSTs and HRTs. Color Palette #1 "Misty":
2027 Community Outreach quilt sales support Paint Love. |
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This year AMQG chose an FPP block and quilt design by Kim Hertel that perfectly showcased the theme of symmetry. The amazing custom longarm quilting was done by member Cheryl Degan. Color Palette: |
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For this year’s Community Outreach Challenge, members were asked to design quilts that show a color shift, or gradient, in the piecing. AMQG went with the cool color pallet, and chose an FPP pattern designed by Heather Robinson! The longarm quilting was provided by Heather Joyce. Color Palette: |
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This year's challenge was to use a prescribed color pallete and showcase nontraditional angles. AMQG decided that the Voltron pattern by our member Irene Roderick would be the perfect choice! The perfect straight line quilting was done by member Cheryl Degan. |
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