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Hello Reader!

Happy New Year! We hope that your 2026 is off to a wonderful start, brim full of plans for quilting, creating and playing with fabric. What better way to kick off the year than with a brand new issue of Make Modern?

Over 100 pages of quilty goodness, inspiration, great articles, not to mention a whole bunch of projects to get you heading into your sewing space!

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Issue 68 includes ten new projects to get you diving into your stash and heading to the sewing room. Add to that, we meet some wonderful makers - Lauren Metang and Rebecca Cynamon-Murphy.

Not to mention our brilliant columnists who are sharing all their best hints, tips, suggestions and ideas for successful quilting - the lovely HollyAnne Knight (of String and Story), the insightful Sarah Ashford (Sarah Ashford Studios) and talented Eva Saunders (of Gingerly Quilt Co).

If you want to make sure you don't miss out, why not jump on in and nab yourself a subscription? You will get Issue 67 delivered straight to your inbox instantly, and then Issue 68 will be yours in just two weeks time!

While you're waiting for this fabulous new issue, here's a lil reminder of what we have in Issue 67 that might just tide you over until the newest issue arrives.

Or if you'd love to have inspiration all the time, then check out the All-Access Pass. You'll not only get the current issue, but every issue we've every published! Every issue, quilty friend! That's a whole lot of projects, columns, and articles to delight and inspire!

We're off to dot the i's and cross the t's and get Issue 68 ready to arrive sparkly and new to you less than two weeks. Oh and probably start three new projects!

Happy making!

Kristy, Lara and Jane


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