Description
The ten basic designs shown in this class will give you endless variations and the confidence to begin creating your own modern quilting designs.
Award-winning quilter Jodi Robinson shares straight line designs that are easy to stitch and that give quilts visual interest. Curved lines add an organic and softer feel. Learn how to do spirals, strings, and figure eights with thread paths that minimize starting and stopping. Jodi even shares a bonus pattern that incorporates circles and a grid for a striking allover quilting option.
With every design, Jodi shows her own quilts using these same techniques so you can be inspired to dive in and make your own variations using these basic designs. Few materials are needed, and whether you hand, machine, or longarm quilt, this class can be the answer to your modern quilting design questions.
For your convenience, this class can be purchased for online viewing or purchased on DVD.
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Jodi Robinson has been quilting for over twenty years and is a professional longarm quilter. She has won numerous awards for her machine quilting skills. Jodi teaches, creates pantograph quilting designs, and has self-published nine machine quilting books on design. Jodi’s focus is to communicate quick and easy methods to make beautiful, freehand machine quilting designs that will personalize and make your quilting unique.
Liz Wilson (verified owner) –
I have to give this class 5 stars on originality alone. I love my feathers, paisleys, and swirls, and always will … but sometimes I get tired of them and look for new things to quilt. The designs presented in this class are … so different from anything else I’ve seen! They’re truly original, and they look pretty easy too. I love the organic look, the texture it gives, and the fact that it’s different than what everybody else is doing out there makes it intriguing. While I’ll always love my more traditional quilting motifs, these simple but interesting designs definitely will increase my repertoire.
Carlene Gadberry (verified owner) –
I have watched her class several times, Jodi does a great job making you feel comfortable on creating easy to hard designs. Love her modern technics.
Rebekah Wilson (verified owner) –
I purchased this class several months ago and remember absolutely loving it then. There was so much going on at the time, that I never put it into practice. Just sat down and watched it again today. WOW!
Jodi really covers all the bases with excellent teaching. I love her examples of quilts followed by doodling and stitching the designs with reinforcements of more examples. Jodi, your lessons are very well organized and your tone is so encouraging! I do believe I will be putting these lessons into practice in the very near future….Thank you!
Catherine Harnisch (verified owner) –
I have taken a class with Jodi at MQX. I loved these designs. They are so simple give a great effect an texture.
I will be recommending this course to others in my local longarm group!
Acela Troffer (verified owner) –
I’ve done most of my learning about quilting on line. This is a great class. The designs are simple but have great potential for modifying and building upon in a modern quilt. Very relative. Tthe examples of quilts Jodi shows the students is hard to see because the thread matches the fabrics. For an example it would be nice for it to have been in a contrasting thread or working harder with the videography to get it to show on screen. Good stuff!
Jane McKay (verified owner) –
An awesome instructor with easy innovative designs. I highly recommend this class to anyone who is interested in modern quilting.
Elaine Armenta (verified owner) –
I’ve taken four quilting classes on Iquilt and this was not the best , but it wasn’t the worst. It was definetly worth the money though. I just bought a great book on modern quilts, which I’m going to start making and this class is the perfect compliment. She has some really great designs, that will look awesome with the modern quilts. I totally disagree with the one review that called her sloppy. The style of quilting is definetly irregular but that’s the way it’s supposed to be. It’s called organic. I like the fact that it’s not perfect. It’s the kind of quilting that doesn’t leave you feeling intimidated. Anybody can do it and it really looks great. Thanks Jodi for bringing us these fresh new designs.
Margaret Cathie (verified owner) –
This course is really liberating, thank you! The instructor is obviously a “big picture” person and I can see that some quilters might find that really frustrating, but if you look at the samples Jodi shows, they are fascinating and very much about texture and pattern and I love that! I have really only ever been exposed to “traditional ” quilting (which I really enjoy and am trying to master), but Jodi is doing something that is really exciting and new and that is wonderfully enabling! Very many thanks for a great class; I learned heaps, and it has “unlocked” and freed up some pattern making for me that I am very much enjoying in my own quilting!
Dinah Benson (verified owner) –
This class took very familiar efficient free motion quilting motifs and expanded their creative potential. I will never think about grids, circles, spirals or echoing in the same way again.
Denise Nash (verified owner) –
Very simple, effective designs for the modern quilt. I found the class valuable, and will put it to use on client quilts immediately. These are uncomplicated enough for beginning quilters and offer plenty of visual interest. Thank you for a great class.
Sharon Riddle (verified owner) –
The class was great, but sound was way too low. I had to strain to hear it. The instructor shared great ideas.
Linda Frankiewicz (verified owner) –
Jodi does an wonderful job of presenting the material. She speaks very well and explains the stitching, planning, and everything that goes with it. The class materials, information on the marking tools, drawing out the designs, and all the quilted samples are such a help. You will learn a lot in this class. This was the perfect format for me to enjoy one of her classes.
Janice Kiser (verified owner) –
Jodi’s designs are so simple and her presentation of how to mark them and quilt them is put across well. I enjoyed seeing how she used them in her samples and feel I can do this. I hope to see more of Jodi’s classes made available in this format. I feel like I got as much information and more out of these little videos as I would at a major venue featuring long arm teachers and I didn’t have to travel to do it.
Karen Marchetti (verified owner) –
What a great class! Jodi is very informative and explains in detail the steps required to create the stitches, as well as variations of each stitch. After watching this, I’m feeling more confident in attempting some of these modern style stitches.
Cheri Barker (verified owner) –
I’m sorry to say so, but I was very disappointed with this class. Designs were far too simple and the quilt work was very sloppy. I found myself very turned off with how sloppy it was, I felt like it was thrown together. If this is the quality of the iquilt classes, I don’t know that I’ll take another. Just my honest opinion.
This might work for a very early beginner, but not an experienced quilter.
Nancy Gano (verified owner) –
WOW! I loved this lesson! Instructor shared so much easy to follow information. From the class materials and marking tools, to the drawing lessons and how they were so easily quilted out, to the actual quilted examples. Each “simple” design created such amazing results! Highly recommended!
Eva Birch (verified owner) –
Great Class! Very inspiring!
The material in the class was very well thought out and presented in an organized and concise manner.
Jodi’s creativity is inspiring and the designs she chose for this class are are easily adaptable for a variety of quilts.
Jodi showed many samples showcasing the designs covered in the different lessons which allowed me to visualize the designs in a realistic way.