Designing Modern Quilts
Weeks Ringle
Class Preview
- In-depth Instruction; over 259 mins
- On-demand video access anytime
- Bonus downloadable PDF resources
- Access to class Q&A
Introduction
33:05
Weeks demystifies design and discusses the preparations and perspective needed to design modern quilts.
Modern Quilts
11:54
Learn the definition of modern design and how technology has changed traditional quilting techniques over time.
Color Theory Basics
12:59
Explore color theory and experiment with fabrics you find both easy and difficult to design with.
Master Use of Color
26:40
Delve further into color. Learn what colors typically symbolize and what colors work well together.
Printed Fabrics
20:36
Understand print scale and the design concept of figure ground.
Designing with Solids
27:38
Discover the advantages of working with solid-color fabric when designing graphics.
Composition
41:32
Learn about the different approaches to composition and how to be inspired by fabric or the ideas around you.
Executing Your Design
21:13
Plan and lay out your composition, making sure it's well-balanced and engaging. Learn design pitfalls and how to avoid them.
Beyond the Block
23:29
Deconstruct the traditional quilt block and learn to successfully incorporate repetition, asymmetry and concentrated zones of detail into your quilt compositions.
Quilting & Finishing
39:33
Experiment with quilting motifs and how they interact with fabric. Learn to set goals and to follow through with inspiration.
Description
Learn to design quilts that reflect our times in Designing Modern Quilts with Weeks Ringle! Weeks provides the tools necessary to scratch your expressive itch, offering fresh perspectives on color, prints, patterns, and quilt construction. The class includes five explorations that will tap your creativity and expand your approach to designing quilts. Weeks also shares her brainstorm-in-a-box approach to finding design inspiration in surprising places.
Weeks Ringle
Weeks Ringle is the co-founder of Modern Quilt Studio (previously FunQuilts), a contemporary quilt design studio in Oak Park, Illinois. Weeks and her husband, Bill Kerr, began making modern quilts in 1999, using their graduate design degrees to bring a modern voice to the quilt world. Modern Quilt Studio launched the first-ever magazine exclusively dedicated to modern quilting, Modern Quilts Illustrated, in 2011. Weeks and Bill's second book, The Modern Quilt Workshop, is now in its sixth printing. Their other books on contemporary quilting and design include Transparency Quilts, Quilts Made Modern and Quiltmakers Color Workshop. Their work has been featured widely in the national press including in O:The Oprah Magazine, TIME, The New York Times, Dwell, American Patchwork & Quilting and Country Living.
Bonus materials available after purchase