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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
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  • Member Spotlight Gayle K.
  • Wendy R. Member Spotlight
  • Make Modern Triangles
  • Tame Triangles with 5-Step Process

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Comments

  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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It’s about slow mornings, quiet time to myself, creating something with my hands, spending time doing something textile, not scrolling on the internet, spending more time creating and less time consuming...

And I think that’s exactly why so many people are being drawn to quilting today.

You want to get offline, learn something new, and have more quiet time that is just for you and your imagination. ✨

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What’s stopping you from quilting isn’t that you don’t want to do it. It’s because you have already convinced yourself of something before even giving it a fair shot. 

You’re probably thinking something like...

👉 “I don’t think I’m creative enough.”
👉 “It looks too complicated.”
👉 “I wouldn’t know where to start.”
👉 “I don’t have enough time.”
👉 “What if I spend all that money and I’m terrible at it?”
👉 “I’ve never been good at sewing.”

If any of those thoughts have crossed your mind, can I let you in on a little secret?

Almost every quilter I know started with one of those ideas in their head, including me. 🤫

The beautiful quilts you see today didn’t begin as beautiful quilts, they began as just an idea and a willingness to try.

Nobody sits down at a sewing machine and automatically knows how to quilt.

You learn by just doing it, sewing stitch by stitch, and every time you enter your sewing room, it gets a little bit easier, and you start to enjoy it more and more. 

If something has been holding you back from quilting, I invite you to take my free class where you have nothing to lose and so much to gain. 

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Freezer paper piecing tip number eight is to press every seam right after sewing it. 
 
Don’t wait until later or until all of your blocks are done. Press those seams right away!

It might feel like it slows you down in the moment, but it actually saves you time (and frustration) later.

When you press as you go, your seams stay crisp, and your pieces lay flat, which makes lining everything up so much easier. You’re not fighting bulky seams or trying to “fix” things at the end. 🙌

Plus, pressing helps set the stitches and keeps your fabric from shifting as you build your block.

Think of it as part of the sewing process, not an extra step.

Your blocks will be flatter, sharper, and way more accurate… and your future self will thank you!

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And every once in a while I convince myself that I don’t need a test block because I’ve made this block hundreds of times or my freezer paper piecing skills are good enough to skip it... 

And do you know what happens every time I convince myself that I don’t need a test block? 🙃

I almost always regret it and end up having a nice long date with Jack The Seam Ripper as a consequence. 

Learn from my mistakes so you don’t have to learn from your own and make the test block EVERY TIME!!!

Are you making test blocks? Tell me in the comments! ⤵️

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I can’t believe I’m saying this, but we’re nearing I can’t believe I’m saying this, but we’re nearing the final months of Dutch Summer! 🥹

Finished Dutch Summer Month 6 blocks are showing up in the Make Modern Triangles Club every day. We’re past the halfway point, and we’re really starting to stack up the blocks! Now that we’ve got a bunch of stacks of blocks, it’s such a fun time to play with arranging your blocks and see what your creativity comes up with. ✨

Once you get beyond the halfway point, you start the countdown to the BIG finish! 🎉

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#modernquilting #paperpiecing #foundationpaperpiecing #quiltingtechnique #quiltteacher
I don’t know about you, but for me, quilting has n I don’t know about you, but for me, quilting has never been about just making quilts.

It’s about slow mornings, quiet time to myself, creating something with my hands, spending time doing something textile, not scrolling on the internet, spending more time creating and less time consuming...

And I think that’s exactly why so many people are being drawn to quilting today.

You want to get offline, learn something new, and have more quiet time that is just for you and your imagination. ✨

I think we could ALL use more of that in our lives, and if you want to give it a try, I’ve got a free class you can sign up for by commenting ‘FREE’ below. 💕

#modernquilting #paperpiecing #foundationpaperpiecing #quiltingtechnique #quiltteacher
I’ve taught thousands of quilters over the last de I’ve taught thousands of quilters over the last decade, and I’ve been quilting myself for over 15 years, and this is what I’ve learned. ⬇️

What’s stopping you from quilting isn’t that you don’t want to do it. It’s because you have already convinced yourself of something before even giving it a fair shot. 

You’re probably thinking something like...

👉 “I don’t think I’m creative enough.”
👉 “It looks too complicated.”
👉 “I wouldn’t know where to start.”
👉 “I don’t have enough time.”
👉 “What if I spend all that money and I’m terrible at it?”
👉 “I’ve never been good at sewing.”

If any of those thoughts have crossed your mind, can I let you in on a little secret?

Almost every quilter I know started with one of those ideas in their head, including me. 🤫

The beautiful quilts you see today didn’t begin as beautiful quilts, they began as just an idea and a willingness to try.

Nobody sits down at a sewing machine and automatically knows how to quilt.

You learn by just doing it, sewing stitch by stitch, and every time you enter your sewing room, it gets a little bit easier, and you start to enjoy it more and more. 

If something has been holding you back from quilting, I invite you to take my free class where you have nothing to lose and so much to gain. 

Comment ‘FREE’ to sign up. 💕

#modernquilting #quiltingtechnique #quiltpattern #quiltdesign #quiltersofig
Comment ‘FREEZER’ if you want to take my free clas Comment ‘FREEZER’ if you want to take my free class and learn this amazing technique! 👇

Freezer paper piecing tip number eight is to press every seam right after sewing it. 
 
Don’t wait until later or until all of your blocks are done. Press those seams right away!

It might feel like it slows you down in the moment, but it actually saves you time (and frustration) later.

When you press as you go, your seams stay crisp, and your pieces lay flat, which makes lining everything up so much easier. You’re not fighting bulky seams or trying to “fix” things at the end. 🙌

Plus, pressing helps set the stitches and keeps your fabric from shifting as you build your block.

Think of it as part of the sewing process, not an extra step.

Your blocks will be flatter, sharper, and way more accurate… and your future self will thank you!

Comment ‘FREEZER’ for my free class! 💕

#modernquilting #paperpiecing #foundationpaperpiecing #quiltingtechnique #quiltteacher
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