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LMQG Lecture event by Amy Friend shared techniques about "Alternate Grid & Negative Space"
on Wednesday March 5
Amy shared quilts she has made to help demonstrate how she includes alternate gridwork and negative space, two principles of modern quilting. She described how she has played with these two ideas in different ways over the last few years—from just a touch to bold. Amy provided lots of inspiration for when we are planning our quilt layouts.
Workshop: "Improvisational Paper Piecing" on March 22 by Amy Friend
Amy led participants in designing an original improv pattern for paper piecing with 5 or 6 colours. We experimented with grid layouts of the pattern and using the mirror or rotated version of the pattern. This workshop was based on one of the three design approaches that shed share in her second book, Improv Paper Piecing: A Modern Approach to Quilt Design.
more about Amy... https://duringquiettime.com/
Amy Friend is a former museum curator turned designer. She designs modern quilts and specializes in paper pieced designs. She authored the books Intentional Piecing (2016) and Improv Paper Piecing: A Modern Approach to Quilt Design (2017), and has a new book, Petal + Stem (2020). Since 2019, Amy has run a paper pieced Block of the Month program each year. She is an award winning quilter and her quilts have been exhibited at a number of quilt shows as well as museums. Amy is a national quilt teacher and lecturer. Amy lives in Massachusetts with her husband and three children. If she isn’t sewing or spending time with the family, you might find her in the garden.
on Wednesday March 5
Amy shared quilts she has made to help demonstrate how she includes alternate gridwork and negative space, two principles of modern quilting. She described how she has played with these two ideas in different ways over the last few years—from just a touch to bold. Amy provided lots of inspiration for when we are planning our quilt layouts.
Workshop: "Improvisational Paper Piecing" on March 22 by Amy Friend
Amy led participants in designing an original improv pattern for paper piecing with 5 or 6 colours. We experimented with grid layouts of the pattern and using the mirror or rotated version of the pattern. This workshop was based on one of the three design approaches that shed share in her second book, Improv Paper Piecing: A Modern Approach to Quilt Design.
more about Amy... https://duringquiettime.com/
Amy Friend is a former museum curator turned designer. She designs modern quilts and specializes in paper pieced designs. She authored the books Intentional Piecing (2016) and Improv Paper Piecing: A Modern Approach to Quilt Design (2017), and has a new book, Petal + Stem (2020). Since 2019, Amy has run a paper pieced Block of the Month program each year. She is an award winning quilter and her quilts have been exhibited at a number of quilt shows as well as museums. Amy is a national quilt teacher and lecturer. Amy lives in Massachusetts with her husband and three children. If she isn’t sewing or spending time with the family, you might find her in the garden.
Amy was at QuiltCon 2025 in Phoenix
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