We'll be giving away two of our new modern quilt books the week following our Tuesday posts of the 8th, the 15th and the 22nd. You can enter each week.
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| Picnic sampler featuring the six modern blocks. |
All you need to do to enter this week is to comment as to which modern design element you like to see in a quilt. (and if you are willing to share why, that would be great!) Entries end at midnight central time, Monday, January 7th, 2013.
Choose from:
- asymmetry
- negative space
- bold colors, solid color fabrics, graphic prints
- clean lines and shapes
- or one of your own.
Big news for us is eInsider, a web newsletter put out by Quilts, Inc featured us! (They are the folks in charge of Quilt Markets.) We are excited to share it with you all.
The full link is: http://www.quilts.com/
This edition of the newsletter is hosted permanently at: http://www.quilts.com/
Looking forward to your comments!
Till Tuesday...
Looking forward to your comments!
Till Tuesday...
I think if I had to narrow it down I like the simple lines. The phrase less is more fits. When you have a beautifully pieced quilt that uses just a few different fabrics and it beautifully quilted it just sings. I would take that over a scrappy, busy, over-quilted quilt anyday.
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I like how many modern quilt designs aren't too "busy". I'm generally looking for a clean appearance.
ReplyDeleteI love asymmetry in modern quilts. Looking forward to getting your book!
ReplyDeleteI love the negative space in modern quilts - it is such a nice place to play with quilting lines!
ReplyDeleteI'll go with bold colors, solid color fabrics, graphic prints. Congrats on eInsider article--very good write-up! Look forward to seeing you at QuiltCon.
ReplyDeleteI am a clean lines girl- geometrical shapes and structure.
ReplyDeleteOf those choices, I'd say the use of solid colours. Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteI am a big fan of asymmetric designs. It is more organic and interesting to me!
ReplyDeleteI love bright and bold colors...they just look happy! If I'm using a big graphic print, then I like solid colors with it, and find that negative space can really make the print pop.
ReplyDeleteI love asymmetry. I spent my youth as an art student. That may also be why I am fond of negative space. I always use the negative space in a way that adds to the design flow of the quilts.
ReplyDeleteI love the intersection of lines and the way color and negative space allows the intersection to take on life. I love modern art and now modern quilting for that intersection of life and art; straight lines that always can be sending us in curves and circles.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the feature by Quilts, Inc. Huge!!! My favorite element would be the bold colors & graphics of contemporary fabrics.
ReplyDeleteAlong with my love of solids, bold colors and graphic prints just make me happy when I look at a modern quilt. There are so many ways to make those pop out when I quilt them.
ReplyDeleteI'm drawn to the possibility of creating optical illusions through color transparency and implied movement.
ReplyDeleteI'm a fan of your new book! I saw pictures of your booth from Fall Market and thought the sampler quilt looks great! One of the things I'm most drawn to in modern wilts is the use of color and graphic prints!
ReplyDeleteI like clean lines in modern quilts. I'd love it if I could figure out how to really highlight modern prints with the transparency you show in many of your quilts.
ReplyDeleteI like that the negative space acts as a canvas for the geometric elements.
ReplyDeleteI just love how they can be simple yet sophisticated, bold yet subtle all at the same time ...
ReplyDeleteI like clean lines because they don't necessarily have to be used in a "modern" quilt. By changing fabrics to civil war fabrics or calicos, I find that the clean line style ends up looking like a fresh take on traditional blocks in a way no one can quite put their finger on. I did this with modern pickle relish, and love the effect!
ReplyDeletePersonally, I'm all for negative space. While I like piecing, I'm finding it more challenging to me to quilt negative space. Seems I'm spending more time quilting than piecing... and that's okay by me. Thanks for the chance to win your book!
ReplyDeleteThere are 2 elements I really like in modern quilts, solid fabrics and since I am a longarmer I like the negative space.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the chance to win your new book!
I like the asymmetry and use of solid fabrics in modern quilt design.
ReplyDeleteI have two elements I really like and can't decide between them so I'm listing both - 1. bold colors, solid color fabrics, graphic prints and 2. clean lines and shapes. Sometimes you have to let the fabric speak and the clean lines and shapes let it happen.
ReplyDeleteAsymetry is my favorite element--love it in clothes, too.
ReplyDeleteI really like all of these elements & think that together they easily & simply define what modern quilting is all about. I like the negative space element the most - thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteNegative Space is the strength that holds the design together.
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