Vessel Quilts

Riane Menardi Morrison is a modern quilt designer making minimal quilts for the modern home. Her quilts; made with linen, cotton, and wool; are as beautiful as they are functional. Each quilt is hand-quilted with large stitching for an heirloom-quality finish. Riane got her start in the publishing industry, and through serendipitous events, found herself working on the magazine, Fresh Quilts. There, she produced and designed quilts, edited quilting-related copy, and oversaw projects. After a brief stint with an advertising agency, Riane started working as the communications manager for The Modern Quilt Guild. Riane has taught at QuiltCon and was a guest on season two of the public television show, Fresh Quilting. She regularly teaches about quilt design and hand quilting techniques to local makers, and was a co-founding member of the Central Iowa Modern Quilt Guild. Her work and writing has been featured in magazines including Modern Patchwork, Simply Moderne, QuiltCon Magazine and Quilting Arts. Riane is a coauthor of the book Modern Quilts: Designs of the New Century, and her self-published book about her own modern quilts, Inheritance, is available now for pre-order! She lives and works in Des Moines with her husband, Kevin, and silly pup, Dallas. Welcome, Riane! Continue Reading