Dioramarama: Modern Quilt-Along Update

• I caught up to the times and started a Modern Quilt-Along pool on Flickr. Please join if you're in the quilt-along, or even if you're not.

• Do you have a hole in your library the size of Bill Kerr and Weeks Ringle's book Color Harmony for Quilters? The publisher has reissued an expanded edition with a new title, Quiltmaker's Color Workshop, and with added chapters, including four new Funquilts patterns to boot! These patterns are of course game for the Modern Quilt-Along.

• You probably already know that Weeks has joined the fray at Whip-up and has been posting some great tutorials and thoughts quilting.

• Whipup queen and MQA member Kathreen was interviewed for episode 17 of the Craftsanity podcast. She even mentioned the quilt-along, and it was magical to hear "Dioramarama" spoken with an Australian accent!

• Speaking of, MQA member Pixie has hit the big time with her Pixie Purls Podcast. She talks mostly about knitting and the yarn arts, but I guess that's OK.

• Kelly finished her Unfinished Business quilt. Yowza! I love it. It belongs in a show for sure, don't you think? I don't know if going from white to dark gray was harder or easier than using a color, but it's amazing how it's just as vibrant.

• Ms. Spamantha has her Love Beads on her to-do list for Project Spectrum this month. Rock!

• Jenny, who has already finished her Plain Spoken! We are clearly hatched from the same nest, as she's now working on the same Denyse Schmidt quilt as me.

• Maggie made a Marquee, and was inspired to start her own internet quilt-along based on the book Quilter's Playtime by Diana S. Hire. I haven't seen the book but it definitely sounds interesting -- you build quilts based on games that you play with your fabric stash.

Thanks for the updates - so fun to see what everyone else is up to! I didn't know about the revised book... I already have Color Harmony - do you think it's worthwhile to get the new version for the new patterns?

Thanks for the shout-outs! SO great to see so many beautiful interpretations of the patterns. Kim, I forgot to tell you to pass on to MQA-ers that the Love Beads quilt will appear on the cover of a college math textbook this fall. We were intrigued that the publisher thought that using that quilt on the cover would make math seem more interesting and accessible. Don't you love the idea of a bunch of math majors carrying around the Love Beads quilt every day?

1. Look at all the quilters go!
2. I wasn't even sure you got my "entry" email for the quilt along and so consequently have been slacking on the zipper progress.
3. This update post and new flickr group should kick me into high gear. Oh my.
4. Thanks for continuing to moderate this great group.

yippee, i joined too with day at the beach, but just bought fabric to attempt something more daring.

This is just marvellous - is it too late to join in the fun?