Taking its inspiration from modern art, modern quilting often looks quite simple but the creative results can be so exciting
“This month, we explore the inventive and distinctive style of modern quilting and show some simple ways to create the look.”
– Lin Clements
WHAT IS MODERN QUILTING?
Categorising a quilt style is notoriously difficult and although quilt shows do it to roughly group types of work together and perhaps level the playing field, I feel increasingly that such classifications are arbitrary at best. To the average person, the blurred boundaries between, say, a traditional quilt and a modern quilt, or a contemporary quilt and an art quilt, makes hard and fast rules tricky to establish. Within the ‘modern’ quilting category, opinions can differ as to what constitutes ‘modern’. For some people it is a look, for others it’s an attitude. Some people feel strongly that there is a difference between ‘modern’ and ‘contemporary’. The distant roots of modern quilting lie in modern art (artwork
