1. MODERN QUILTING: A
TWIST ON TRADITION

2. Overview
 Modern inspiration
 Design
 Lack of rules
 Color
 Fabric

3. Modern inspiration
Crosses Quilts, Denyse Schmidt

4. Modern inspiration
Improv piecing, Urban Patchwork blog
Rossie Crafts

5. Modern inspiration
Tangerine Ladder, B/perrino quilts
Wonky Pinwheel Tutorial, Greenleaf Goods

6. Modern inspiration
Modern Crosses, Modern Log Cabin Quilting book
Fault Lines, Kathy Loomis

7. Design
Design isn’t
Use asymmetry in quilt design
balanced
Different
designs on
each side of
quilt

8. Design
Fewer
Less repetition
repeating
blocks
Random

9. Design
Flying Geese
Reinterpreted traditional designs
Updated colors
More “white
space”
Majority is
solid fabrics

10. Design
Orange Peel
Reinterpreted traditional designs
Graphic
fabrics with
large prints
Bold solids
No borders

11. Design
Log Cabin
Reinterpreted traditional designs
Improv
piecing
Modern colors
Modern
fabrics

12. Design
Graphic
Amish Quilts
Solid fabrics
Bold colors

13. Design
Graphic
Quilts of Gee’s Bend
Solid fabrics
Bold colors

14. Design
Larger
Embraces simplicity and minimalism
swatches of
fabric
Highlights the
individual
fabrics more
More graphic
presentation
which makes a
bolder
statement

15. Design
Increased
Embraces simplicity and minimalism
negative
space
More focus on
the individual
elements:
shapes, lines
A single focus

16. Fabrics
Highlights the Embraces simplicity and minimalism
fabric
Very simple

17. Design
Designing
Utilizes alternative block structures or lack of
quilt top as a visible block structure
“whole” rather
than blocks or
pieces

18. Design
Also referred
Increased use of negative space
to as “white
space”
Gives the eye
somewhere to
rest
Design
element
Background or
within a block

19. Design
Anni Quilt by
Inspired by modern art and architecture
Heather Jones
Homage to the Square: Soft
Spoken, 1969 Josef Albers

20. Design
New York
Inspired by modern art and architecture
Skyline Quilt
by Jessica
Blomquist

21. Design
“No Rules”
Use improv piecing
Create as you
go
Improvise as
you sew and
cut
Perfection not
important

22. Design
Pieced stripes
Pieced backs
Design
element
Reversible
Use extra
blocks or
fabric from
front

23. Design
Put as much
Pieced backs
effort into the
back as the
front
Economical,
using what
you have on
hand

24. Design
Lack of rules
“…Originality and untamed lines are
applauded over perfection. There is NO
FEAR in the modern quilter. No fear of
shame for not having perfect points, no fear
of seam allowances being measured, no
fear of angles or colors. When the fear of
breaking rules is gone the creative juices
flow with much more force…”
Essay #4, http://generationqmagazine.com/what-is-modern-
quilting-essay-contest/#3

25. Design
Inspiration
Lack of rules
from
anywhere
Combining
patterns to
make one
unique pattern

26. Color
Fresh
Bold
Bright
Combined
with whites
and grays

27. Color
Allows the
Neutrals
colors to pop
Using all
neutrals with
just a hint of
color
Contrast
Using in a
fresh way

28. Color
Updated color
Unusual or trendy combinations
combos
Follow the
trends
Update a
traditional
block by using
current colors

29. Color
Modern color choices in fabrics

30. Color
Traditional block + updated color = Modern & Fresh

31. Fabrics
Prints
Fabric design
Graphic
Bold
Large prints
Updated

32. Fabrics
Prints
Fabric design
Graphic
Updated
neutrals
Updated
small prints

33. Fabrics
Increased use
Solid fabrics
of solids
Background
Pieced
Highlight
printed fabric
Entirely solid
Design is clear
Graphic/bold

34. Learn More  www.boisemqg.webs.com

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 100 Days of
Modern Quilting
 QuiltCon

36. Learn more
Books

37. Credits
 Presentation adapted from definition found on The Modern Quilt Guild’s web site: http://themodernquiltguild.com/about-2/
 Credits unless otherwise noted on page:
 Page 2: Both images from http://www.freshlemonsquilts.com/
 Page 7: Version of Sparklepunch Quilt –by Elizabeth Fransson of http://www.ohfransson.com/ ; Barbara Perrino
 Page 8: Barbara Perrino; “What's for Breakfast” by Karen Anderson Abraham
 Page 9: www.laurafisherquilts.com; Birds of a Feather Quilt by Rita Hodge; Color Flight by Alexis Deise
 Page 10: www.toldyousew.wordpress.com; Denyse Schmidt’s new book MODERN QUILTS TRADITIONAL INSPIRATION; Portland Peel quilt by Tabslot on Etsy.com
 Page 11: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thechimes/4367001490/; Susan Beal’s book Modern Log Cabin Quilting
 Page 12: Vintage Amish Quilt at William Jenack (http://huntersandgatherersathome.blogspot.com/2011/07/rural-sophistication.html); shelburne-1951 Stars and Bars, a collection of Amish
Quilts of Barbara and Michael Polemis
 Page 13: Loretta Pettway, born 1942. Housetop, 1963
 Page 14: Rashida Coleman Hale; Intersections, by Alissa Haight Carlton; Big Wonky Blocks Quilt by Jenni at Simple Beans
 Page 15: Alissa Haight Carlton - Modern Minimal: 20 Bold and Graphic Quilts
 Page 16: Ashley at www.filminthefridge.com
 Page 17: Barbara Perrino; Banner Quilt by Cristin Wilson
 Page 18: Midnight White, Barbara Perrino; Quilt for Kate by ellebeesquilts; http://www.freshlemonsquilts.com/
 Page 21: http://sewtakeahike.typepad.com/; Wonky log cabin from the Flickr stream of “SUPPOSE - create - delight's”; www.freshlemonsquilts.com
 Page 22: www.filminthefridge.com ; Rita Hodge, Red Pepper Quilts
 Page 23: quiltstory.blogspot.com; QuiltCon Fundraiser Quilt Elizabeth Hartman; hope-valley-quilt-4-back1 filminthefridge; www.makesomething.ca
 Page 24: Octagonal Orb Block, Elizabeth Hartman, http://www.ohfransson.com/
 Page 25: Cherry House quilts
 Page 26: Amish Impressions Zigzag Quilt by Sujata Shah; mythreesonsknit.blogspot.com/; www.filminthefridge.com
 Page 27: Modern and Colorful Patchwork Quilt, Rita Hodge with Red Pepper Quilts; Steely, Jacquie Gering
 Page 28: Belinda Gelhausen; City Lights by Robyn Croft; Color Half Square Triangle Love by Katie Pedersen
 Page 29: Joel Dewberry Collection: Notting Hill Voile; Jane Dixon, High Tide; Parson Gray, Curious Nature; Jessica Gonacha Swift Collection: Blomma, Cloud 9 organics; Andover (A-5900-
BE) Designer: Alison Glass Collection: Lucky Penny; Andover (A-6006-MN) Designer: Lonni Rossi Collection: Fairmount Park
 Page 31: Jay McCarroll, City Center; Alexander Henry line – Tribeca; Ruby Star Sparkle collection; Anna Maria Horner – Field Study; Dear Stella line – Bukhara; Amy Butler, Alchemy
 Page 32: Carolyn Friedlander – Architextures; Lotta Jansdotter- Glimma Canvas line; Denyse Schmidt’s Hope Valley ; Lizzy House, Hello Pilgrim
 Page 33: Orange Boxes, Barbara Perrino; Theas Puzzle Quilt, amybutlerdesign.com; Greek Cross Block Faith at Fresh Lemon Quilts