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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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Reader Interactions

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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If my WIP pile was getting out of control… here’s If my WIP pile was getting out of control… here’s exactly what I’d do: ⬇️

👉 Find a community of quilters to connect with, learn from, and grow with. People who cheer you on, celebrate your blocks, and make you want to keep going!!! 

👉 Make it easier on yourself with freezer paper piecing. This technique completely changed my life. I wanted to give up on quilting altogether at one point before I found freezer paper piecing. 

It’s not that you don’t finish quilts…

It’s that you don’t have the right support or the right process yet. 🧵✨ Comment ‘FREE’ to take my free class, learn the freezer paper piecing technique, and get invited to join an amazing community. 💕

#quiltingcommunity #quiltingclass #quiltingtechnique #quiltinginspiration
One stitch at a time!!! 🪡 Sometimes, a few hours One stitch at a time!!! 🪡

Sometimes, a few hours (or days) in the sewing room just makes it all alright. 🙌

Who agrees? ⬇️

#quiltingismytherapy #quiltinglife #quiltingismybliss #quiltersgonnaquilt
Comment ‘FREE’ to sign up for the class! 🫶 One th Comment ‘FREE’ to sign up for the class! 🫶

One thing that will NEVER get old with freezer paper piecing... ⬇️

The number of blocks I can sew from just ONE foundation! 🙌

It always amazes me, and it’s one of my favorite things about the technique. 

I save so much time not having to make a new foundation for every single block, and that’s not to mention the time saved from not having to rip the paper bits of those foundations out of the seams. ✨

I’m hosting a free class where I teach you this technique, and give you a modern triangle block pattern to start sewing! 

Comment ‘FREE’ if you want to sign up! 🫶
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Here’s a photo dump of some of my favorite quilts that feel like spring. 😍

This season is always so inspiring, as everything starts to come back like, you can open the windows in the sewing room, and the whole world just gets more colorful and bright. ✨

Let me know which one of these quilts is your favorite in the comments! 💕
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