You've had the opportunity to soak in the fabulous prints from Modern Quilt Studio's Printology collection this week, and now we have some quilty goodness to share! Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle centered issue #13 of their magazine, Modern Quilts Illustrated, around Printology, and we're showing you those quilts today.
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You'll find four quilts in the issue, and a fifth quilt is available as a free quilt pattern on our website. Enjoy Bill and Weeks' virtual trunk show of their Printology quilts!
Queen of Diamonds
36” x 48”
Weeks: We wanted
a quilt with a bit of depth. We liked the idea of having the diamond pattern,
but also having those horizontal bands behind it. The gray checkerboard fabric
is critical to making those bands appear.
Bill: The range
of value in the line comes to play here. You can’t achieve those transparency
effects without it.
Dress Up
55” x 80”
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Weeks: I wanted a quilt that really showed off all the
prints, and I also wanted to find a fun role for the little red checkerboard.
It’s the tiny ½” square at the end of alternating rows and the center of the opposite
rows.
Bill: Weeks freehanded the quilting on Dress Up. It has such
wonderful texture that plays so well with the drawings in the fabrics
themselves.
Click here to order Modern Quilts Illustrated #13, featuring four of Bill and Weeks' Printology quilt patterns.
Billiards
49” x 85”
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Weeks: We both adore this quilt. It’s my favorite since On
the Dot. It shows the little checkerboard prints can be used in big chunks even
though they’re a small scale pattern.
Bill: Without a doubt, this is my favorite in the magazine. I
pulled out a design I made a decade ago; Weeks made two changes to it and came
together. We finished it with a French pillowcase binding technique (so you
don’t see the binding on the front).
Framed
53” x 87”
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Bill: I love
sewing strips together. We combined Printology with Benartex’s Shadow Blush
collection (which reads as solids). It’s a matter of just sewing yardage and
using it in large chunks. The angles in it are really dynamic—you have giant
mitered corners from two different strip sets, so there’s no matching of
seams—it’s really forgiving. What I love about a quilt like this is that no two
will ever be the same.
Weeks: You get a
scrappy look within the fabric line. Plus the sewing of all those seams will
help you learn how to control fabric under the foot, which is everything in
quilting to me.
Bill and Weeks also designed a free quilt pattern for Printology.
Click here to download the free pattern.
Follow the Leader
54” x 78”
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Weeks: This is such a versatile quilt to show off medium to large
scale prints. The little black and white checkerboard quilt looks awesome
between the blocks—exactly the way we envisioned it, as a fun accent that
contrasts wonderfully with the rest of the line.
Make sure to see all three projects featuring Printology this week!
Tuesday: Heather @ Quilt-achusetts; @quiltachusetts
Wednesday: Alison @ Little Bunny Quilts
Thursday: Jayne @ Twiggy and Opal; @twiggyandopal
More Printology:
Click here to see the entire Printology collection.
Click here to visit Modern Quilt Studio's website.
Click here to read the interview with Bill and Weeks about Printology.
Stop by next week to see one more quilt designed by Bill and Weeks featured in our new issue of Modern by the Yard!
