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Make Modern Triangles Member Spotlight #19

Block of the Month Program· Modern Triangle Quilts· Sewing with Triangles

30 Mar

Make modern Triangles member spotlight: Ann U.

Ann U. is our featured Make Modern Triangles Member Spotlight!

Ann describes her quilting ID as modern and she has played with different patterns and methods in the genre. She professes her love for variety.

She posts her BOM progress regularly in the Triangle Chatter Community and we love it! When you browse her quilt gallery below, you’ll see her playing with triangles and interesting color palettes.

Make Modern Triangles featured member photo of the 2022 Sparkler BOM month 1 blocks.
Ann celebrates her Sparkler Month 1 finish with a post inside the community. (See the bottle of wine?)

Make Modern Triangles featured member photo of a Wildflower BOM quilt finish.
Quilt made by Ann U.

QUILTING Faves and NOT-so-FAVES

What is your favorite quilt make of all time?

Blue and white stars quilt inspired by van Gogh.

Make Modern Triangles featured member photo of her favorite quilt made with various blues and white fabrics.
Ann’s favorite quilt make inspired by van Gogh.

What are your favorite parts of quilting?

Piecing!

What are your least favorite parts of quilting?

Free motion quilting and hand quilting.

Spotlight on Learning IN MAKE MODERN TRIANGLES

When you joined Make Modern Triangles, what did you want to learn and/or accomplish?

I love to learn new things, so I wanted to learn how I could create triangles and use them in quilts I designed myself. Still working on that. But I’m enjoying the process and the BOMs!

Make Modern Triangles featured member photo of the Wildflower blocks completed.
Wildflower BOM progress posts in the Triangle Chatter Community.

What has quilting taught you about yourself?

I like variety!

Make Modern Triangles featured member photo of a Red, white and blue quilt made with half square triangles and equilateral triangles.

What do you like about quilting with triangles?

The endless variety of triangles that can be used in so many ways!

What’s next on your learn-to-do list?

Long-arm quilting- I just bought a long arm machine!

What is your next project?

A small Cosmos challenge quilt- it’s designed but not made yet.

Modern strip pieced arrow quilt made by Ann U.

Make Modern Triangles featured member photo of a traditional quilt with with muted, tonal pinks, greens, reds and blues.
Quilt made by featured member Ann U.

Make Modern Triangles featured member photo of an improvisational wonky circles blocks in bright colors.
Made by featured member Ann U.

Modern triangle quilt made with print fabrics in blue, gray, black and yellow.
Modern triangle quilt made by featured member Ann U.

Ann’s Stash, SEwing Space and INSPIRATION

Describe your fabric stash.

Enough to fill a room and then some: What can I say? I love fabric and lots of it!

Describe your sewing space and what you like about it.

It has lots of built-in storage and a door I can close when my “creative process” gets messy!

Do you belong to a quilt guild?

Gems of the Prairie Quilters in Peoria, IL for 22 years, and Bloomington-Normal Modern Quilt Guild for 8 years.

Where do you find inspiration for your quilting?

Quilt shows, quilt guild meetings and the Internet.

Quilt made with varied sizes of star blocks in blue and violet fabrics.
Quilt made by featured member Ann U.

Thank you, Ann, for sharing your colorful quilts with us!

Related links about Make Modern Triangles

  • How to Organize Foundation Pieced Quilt Projects
  • Featured Member Debbie U. in the Spotlight
  • Member Spotlight Gayle K.
  • Wendy R. Member Spotlight
  • Make Modern Triangles
  • Tame Triangles with 5-Step Process

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  1. rebeccabryan says

    April 2, 2022 at 10:56 am

    Ann it’s such a pleasure to see you and your amazing quilts in our community. Thank you! <3

  2. Nancy Powell says

    April 2, 2022 at 11:31 am

    What a great profile of Ann and her work. Ann is an amazing quilter and fellow guild member. The beautiful work she showed in this post is only a small sample of her talent. She shows dedication to her guilds with her teaching and sharing. Congrats on your new longarm! Can’t wait to see your Kona mini in May! See you soon! – Nancy P

  3. Nancy Mashburn says

    April 3, 2022 at 6:55 am

    Wow is the only thing I thought, then wow again!!! So so fabulous!! Thank you for sharing!! These are the ones that make me want to try my hand at quilting, as I love navy and white. Then I see a crisp white background and a color explosion and want to. Time will tell if I remain a wantabee or a quiltbee!! Love these quilts!!!!

  4. Georjean L. says

    April 3, 2022 at 8:54 am

    Congratulations on being the featured on the member spotlight. Your quilts are beautiful. I’ve had the privilege of seeming your fabric pulls but not always the completed quilt. It is great to see them in their complete form and such a credit to your talent. You are inspiring! Keep up the beautiful work!

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Because we live in a time where it’s becoming harder and harder to tell what was made by a person and what was created by a computer.

This is something worth talking about. 👇

For people who aren’t quilters, it’s easy to see any beautiful quilt in today’s world and think that the pattern must have been made by AI, or that the fabrics just come that way. 

These triangles weren’t generated in seconds. The fabrics don’t just come that way. 

They were cut one piece at a time, sewn one seam at a time, pressed, trimmed, arranged, rearranged, and stitched together over hours and hours spent in the sewing room, one day at a time. 

Each and every quilt represents DAYS spent in the sewing room, taking time for myself, creating instead of scrolling on the internet. 

And that’s one reason why I fell so deeply in love with the process. Because it’s not something you can just go buy. Quilting encourages us to slow down, learn something new, take time for ourselves, and use our hands. and create something that didn’t exist before. 

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👉 I ALWAYS attach the binding to the BACK first. 
👉 MAKE A TEST BLOCK... every single time. 
👉 I make notes on my foundations. 
👉 I make time for myself to be in my sewing room. 
👉 I buy pretty fabrics that make me go “Oooohhh, Aahhh!” 
👉 I don’t do Y seams. 

What would you add to the list? Tell us your quilting secrets in the comments. ⬇️

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You don’t want it to be TOO hot either. 

Use a HOT dry iron, and that should help your freezer paper stick to your fabric! 

The freezer paper needs enough heat to grip the fabric properly.

I also love using a wool pressing mat because it helps hold heat longer and makes the freezer paper stick even better.

When it comes to the quilting techniques, sometimes even a tiny adjustment can make a huge difference. 🙌

Quilters, do you ever struggle with this? Let me know in the comments and drop a ‘FREEZER’ below if you want to take my free class! 💌
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That’s a part of what makes the Make Modern Triangles Club so much fun. 

We have ALL types of quilters. All ages, all skill levels, some brand-new, and some who have been in the club for years. 🙌

There are always new members joining, new projects started, and plenty of projects being finished and celebrated, too. 

It’s a community full of people who just get all the quirks of being a quilter. ✨

We’d love to have you join us and bring your personlity to the club. Comment ‘CLUB’ for details to join and I’ll send them your way. 💌

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You can’t just go buy fabric like this. 👀 Because You can’t just go buy fabric like this. 👀

Because we live in a time where it’s becoming harder and harder to tell what was made by a person and what was created by a computer.

This is something worth talking about. 👇

For people who aren’t quilters, it’s easy to see any beautiful quilt in today’s world and think that the pattern must have been made by AI, or that the fabrics just come that way. 

These triangles weren’t generated in seconds. The fabrics don’t just come that way. 

They were cut one piece at a time, sewn one seam at a time, pressed, trimmed, arranged, rearranged, and stitched together over hours and hours spent in the sewing room, one day at a time. 

Each and every quilt represents DAYS spent in the sewing room, taking time for myself, creating instead of scrolling on the internet. 

And that’s one reason why I fell so deeply in love with the process. Because it’s not something you can just go buy. Quilting encourages us to slow down, learn something new, take time for ourselves, and use our hands. and create something that didn’t exist before. 

Take this as your nudge to get offline and go do something that you love today. Tell me what you’re doing in the comments. ✨ ⬇️

#modernquilting #quiltingtechnique #quiltpattern #quiltdesign #quiltersofig
👉 I refuse to spend hours ripping paper bits from 👉 I refuse to spend hours ripping paper bits from my seams from foundation paper piecing. 
👉 I ALWAYS attach the binding to the BACK first. 
👉 MAKE A TEST BLOCK... every single time. 
👉 I make notes on my foundations. 
👉 I make time for myself to be in my sewing room. 
👉 I buy pretty fabrics that make me go “Oooohhh, Aahhh!” 
👉 I don’t do Y seams. 

What would you add to the list? Tell us your quilting secrets in the comments. ⬇️

#quiltteacher #quiltingtutorial #quiltingtips #modernquilting
Comment ‘FREEZER’ for my free class to learn this Comment ‘FREEZER’ for my free class to learn this amazing paper piecing technique! 🌟

If your freezer paper is not sticking to your fabric, your iron might not be hot enough. 🔥

But be warned... 👇

You don’t want it to be TOO hot either. 

Use a HOT dry iron, and that should help your freezer paper stick to your fabric! 

The freezer paper needs enough heat to grip the fabric properly.

I also love using a wool pressing mat because it helps hold heat longer and makes the freezer paper stick even better.

When it comes to the quilting techniques, sometimes even a tiny adjustment can make a huge difference. 🙌

Quilters, do you ever struggle with this? Let me know in the comments and drop a ‘FREEZER’ below if you want to take my free class! 💌
Which personality type are you in the quilting gro Which personality type are you in the quilting group? 👀

That’s a part of what makes the Make Modern Triangles Club so much fun. 

We have ALL types of quilters. All ages, all skill levels, some brand-new, and some who have been in the club for years. 🙌

There are always new members joining, new projects started, and plenty of projects being finished and celebrated, too. 

It’s a community full of people who just get all the quirks of being a quilter. ✨

We’d love to have you join us and bring your personlity to the club. Comment ‘CLUB’ for details to join and I’ll send them your way. 💌

#quiltteacher #quiltingtutorial #quiltingtips #modernquilting
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