Modern Quilt Movement
08-18-2011, 01:20 PM
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I love modern quilts. Not art quilts, really, just usable quilts in modern styles. I don't like my quilts to look like paintings, but I love beautiful fabrics and want them showcased in the quilt.
The oldies like GFG, Sunbonnet Sue, and Trip around the World... ho hum. Been there. Done that. That's just my opinion but I'm sticking to it! You will get as many opinions as there are quilters!
The oldies like GFG, Sunbonnet Sue, and Trip around the World... ho hum. Been there. Done that. That's just my opinion but I'm sticking to it! You will get as many opinions as there are quilters!
08-18-2011, 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Sierra
I don't think of Gee's Bend quilters as "artistic" in the sense I think most people here are referring to which is deliberately arranging fabric (and now "embelishments") to make an outstanding design or picture. No doubt they were (and are) artist, but they were extremely poor and used what they could get to make a quilt of love, not of astounding beauty. The designs were innate and organic, like their music. Perhaps if you are beautiful enough on the inside it shows on the outside. Their quilts show us an ultimate in quilting in so far as with very little you can make an object of love and astounding beauty. They were not bound (could not afford to be bound) by the limits of blocks and yet they made those wonderful quilts... and thereby freed many of us who have been stuck within the block concept. Ahhhh, thank you lovely ladies from Gee's Bend!
I think a lot of people responding are confusing modern quilt patterns with art quilts. They aren't the same thing at all.
08-18-2011, 01:57 PM
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When I make a quilt for myself or just to "make a quilt" with no one in mind, just to the process, I tend to do traditional design. For "quick" lap quilts, gifts, I tend to go the easier more modern designs.....just mix and match whatever I grab, cut it any old way and piece it!!!! and most of the time it comes out "cute"......I am amazed at the "art" quilts...altho I have a hard time calling that art form a "quilt"....in my mind quilts are to cover ones self with. I iike doing tablerunners in both "modern" and traditional depending on who/what reason I am making it. Altho I must say some of the offerings in the mags lately are so "modern" the fabrics seem to be a hodge podge of a fabric line....just to advertise the line....who cares about the quilt......JMHO
08-18-2011, 01:59 PM
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Having been spending a serious amount of time quilting in the last 5 years, I have yet to find my nitch....traditional, modern, or landscaping. I am attempting all and appreciate others who dig in and do the same. Perhaps modern is my least favorite because I have not mastered the combination of colors and tone. But combining modern as a background and then overlaying a landscape sounds interesting.
As for Gee's Bend quilts, I truly love their optimism in improvising and creating not only a quilt for warmth but now days, a quilt for modern art. I commend the ladies and would do well to sit with them a full week learning their craft and filling myself with their beautiful harmonized music. What a bus tour they had on public television a few years back. Congrats to them.
As for Gee's Bend quilts, I truly love their optimism in improvising and creating not only a quilt for warmth but now days, a quilt for modern art. I commend the ladies and would do well to sit with them a full week learning their craft and filling myself with their beautiful harmonized music. What a bus tour they had on public television a few years back. Congrats to them.
08-18-2011, 02:42 PM
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To each their own. Some of the newer designs in magazines are very simple and for me, would not be a challenge. However I know the new generation of quilters are usually working and they do not have the hours to devote to complicated projects, so its fine with me. I do not enjoy a lot of the new Huge, floral, and busy prints etc, but I have my stash to keep me in fabric, plus if I need a specific color, I just over dye something I have on hand.
08-18-2011, 02:48 PM
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Just like all other forms of art quilting has room for traditional all the way to modern designs and I love it all. We are so fortunate to have so many options in a craft that started out of dire necessity, keeping people from freezing. Today it still fills that same necessity, adornes our walls and has found it's way into fashion art. Aren't we fortunate to be part of such a diverse craft... Just my dollar and twenty-five cents worth. :-D :-D :-D
08-18-2011, 03:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Lisa_wanna_b_quilter
Quilting is like all art forms. There is room for everyone. I will like some things and not like some things, but in the end we are all quilters. If we all liked the same things, life would get pretty dull.
Personally, most super modern things are not for me. I'm a traditional girl, but I still respect the work and creativity that goes into the quilt.
Personally, most super modern things are not for me. I'm a traditional girl, but I still respect the work and creativity that goes into the quilt.
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