tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post3980206225172579072..comments2024-03-17T11:47:12.098-06:00Comments on Dining Room Empire: Throwback - A DigressionCheryl Arkisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13552721454371060936noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-68355958847345041872013-05-25T16:48:34.231-06:002013-05-25T16:48:34.231-06:00I had much the same reaction after attending a big...I had much the same reaction after attending a big show here last summer. It seems that most show quilters have been trying so hard to "out do" each other that their quilts hardly resemble what I call a quilt anymore. I left that show feeling very "underwhelmed". I think that the judging will eventually catch up to the current quilting trends. And what it takes to achieve a great "minimal" design will be more valued. We had quite the conversation about this on our car ride home from the show. <br /><br />I've always been inspired most by old and antique quilts. Lynnhttp://thelittleredhen.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-49702899965074402022012-11-13T05:18:15.429-07:002012-11-13T05:18:15.429-07:00I am a brand new quilter. I made my first upcycle...I am a brand new quilter. I made my first upcycled quilt earlier this year and I have some vintage material that will be turned into a quilt Thanksgiving weekend (that's the plan at least *grin*)<br />I find all of your observations interesting! I will choose my fabrics and designs (at this point) by what I believe I can handle without getting frustrated and giving up. But I thank you for your insights. This actually gives me more courage!Danahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09509754388583159590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-13316069328063877402012-06-01T16:40:48.739-06:002012-06-01T16:40:48.739-06:00Great post, I couln't agree more.Great post, I couln't agree more.Flosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02864766688896652935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-43227559295140335892012-01-26T16:01:19.849-07:002012-01-26T16:01:19.849-07:00Loved this article and couldn't agree more. A...Loved this article and couldn't agree more. Although we only have pieces of a quilt top that was made by my great-grandmother, it looks more modern than traditional. It is a "crazy" quilt made up of many types of darker and heavier fabrics (ie. velvets, satins, etc) with each odd shaped piece quilted in different "fancy" hand stitches in a bright color. We had the pieces framed and have had comments on the "modern" art.Galehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17750168570067972529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-30046694970094543882011-12-08T07:47:09.954-07:002011-12-08T07:47:09.954-07:00I know this is quite an old post, but I came acros...I know this is quite an old post, but I came across it because Rossie's process pledge was being featured on Generation Q Magazine today and back links led me to you. <br /><br />I started a Modern Quilt Guild in 2010 before I really understood what it was about. I wanted to make contemporary quilts from my own patterns using solids and some prints, but wasn't interested in other people's patterns and fabric lines AT ALL. I was excited that nearly 300 people expressed interest in joining the guild, but imagine how much a fish out of water I felt when they actually arrived, with their so-and-so's pattern, and so-and-so's fabric line, and pre cuts and throwing around fabric designers and popular blogger's names all over the place - I was all WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU WOMEN TALKING ABOUT?!<br /><br />And the quilts the brought in, were to mind, very traditional. There was nothing "modern" about them at all, except for the new fabrics.<br /><br />So I am SOOOOOOO GLAD to see you post this! The happy ending to the story is that after six months, I turned the guild over to a lovely young woman who was exactly what the modern quilters were looking for, and three of the women and I crept away and started a "contemporary" quilt guild and we're all now very happy. :)<br /><br />I also wanted to say that part of the problem with Quit Canada is that the governing board has a very specific interest in more traditional quilts - and one person on that board said expressly, in the presence of the enemy (a member of our contemporary quilt guild) that they didn't want any modern or contemporary quilts in the shows. <br /><br />I also heard that there was a shake up this year, so maybe things will change. <br /><br />Thank you so much posting this! It was wonderful to see my thoughts confirmed after all this time. :)Kit Langhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02918043609898327487noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-30363341064908851662011-07-21T00:01:20.281-06:002011-07-21T00:01:20.281-06:00Thank you for saying what (apparently) so many of ...Thank you for saying what (apparently) so many of us have been thinking! I've been quilting for twenty years, but all along have felt that I was a 'modern' quilter, and my grandmother before me was in every sense of the word, a modern quilter. modern doesn't mean new, it means current. So at any particular point in time, whatever is the current style is modern.Jeanhttp://www.sophisticatstudio.canoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-69691565484025143142011-02-10T13:38:39.066-07:002011-02-10T13:38:39.066-07:00Great post. I've said similar before--although...Great post. I've said similar before--although I don't think anybody listens to me...which is fine. I'm nobody famous.<br />Modern quilting is really not new when you search around and see what has been done before. But, as you say, that isn't a negative thing about modern quilting. It just is what it is.momto2wasdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07946036639603120977noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-12438041919453465832010-11-03T09:11:35.621-06:002010-11-03T09:11:35.621-06:00Very well said.
I am a slooooooooow quilter just ...Very well said. <br />I am a slooooooooow quilter just trying to do my own thing at my own speed :)Carolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13352764994854290533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-53110925524595237742010-10-03T23:58:07.589-06:002010-10-03T23:58:07.589-06:00I appreciated your blog comments on "Modern Q...I appreciated your blog comments on "Modern Quilting" and have linked them to my blog.<br /><br /><br />I thoroughly enjoyed your thoughts....I often feel like a outcast because some things most quilters like just don't WOW me.....thanks again.....for making me feel almost normal...I am new to quilting and need update my blog more often I have alot of work that I haven't listed yet....YIKESAdelehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07414138130790195660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-83611222169026191152010-09-22T06:52:30.007-06:002010-09-22T06:52:30.007-06:00I came to your post in a roundabout way - Rossie c...I came to your post in a roundabout way - Rossie commented on <a href="http://piecemealquilts.wordpress.com/2010/09/18/an-essay-on-modern-quilting/" rel="nofollow">my post</a> about my reactions to HER post/video. She included a link to this post, and I'm glad I followed it. Thanks for your insight!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-41579215216797892002010-09-16T16:00:37.253-06:002010-09-16T16:00:37.253-06:00I just came and read this after watching Rossie...I just came and read this after watching Rossie's lecture on the subject... <br />So interesting, thanks for taking the time to think about and articulate your ideas on the subject.<br /><br />the lecture and this post have been deposited in my brain and are now being processed.... <br />thank you!2ndAvenueStudio-Rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13883502857437987115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-14460200041304945872010-07-18T15:12:07.211-06:002010-07-18T15:12:07.211-06:00Good for you!! The things you've said in this ...Good for you!! The things you've said in this post are so true.I've thought the same things. Thanks for taking the time to articulate them so well.Rachaeldaisyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15437603769773251690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-32499090214806291512010-07-12T18:53:58.777-06:002010-07-12T18:53:58.777-06:00I stumbled on your blog today because of the City ...I stumbled on your blog today because of the City Quilts blog tour. I saw this link on your sidebar, and I am blown away. This may be one of the most well-written quilting blog posts I've read that wasn't describing a technique, but an <i>idea</i>.<br /><br />I love so much of what you said. In fact, a lot of it has crossed my mind, but I haven't been able to put them in such eloquent terms. I do think that part of what defines many "modern" quilters isn't the pattern as much as the fabric.<br /><br />I will definitely be adding your blog to my Google Reader, and looking over your archives. I look forward to reading more of your blog!Meghanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15874369873184870693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-44038085468509812642010-06-26T19:38:22.205-06:002010-06-26T19:38:22.205-06:00I love this post, and am so very appreciative for ...I love this post, and am so very appreciative for the way you have managed to articulate the way I feel about quilting vs. 'modern' quilting.<br /><br />I've been quilting for a while now - since I was sixteen, and the more I do this, the more I move toward re-capturing 'traditional' quilts, just in brighter colors.<br /><br />Thank you so much for this thoughtful and inspiring post. I'll be pointing more readers your way!Grey Cathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13000609665113112519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-88750863829518090752010-06-17T06:33:16.607-06:002010-06-17T06:33:16.607-06:00This post was such a refreshing take on quilt show...This post was such a refreshing take on quilt shows and what is really considered modern. Too often I hear people think out loud that they couldn't possibly make a quilt of show quality. Talented people who have been sewing, quilting, and tailoring for nearly 40 years even. I will share this with that particular individual in fact. Thank you.sonoma crafthttp://sonomacraft.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-31387241405268129222010-06-08T21:57:03.478-06:002010-06-08T21:57:03.478-06:00Excellent post.Excellent post.Mishkahttp://quiltinggallery.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-45544447785776679682010-06-04T09:44:36.817-06:002010-06-04T09:44:36.817-06:00What a great, insightful post. I think you definit...What a great, insightful post. I think you definitely have a good point in regards to the fact that "there is nothing new under the sun." Our so-called modern quilts bear strong resemblances to quilts that women have made for centuries.<br /><br />I struggle, admittedly, with the idea of complexity in piecing. I think that, for those who make them, they should continue to do so. But I don't know if there is a place for that in my life right now. I want to actually <i>finish</i> a quilt, and because I am still a fairly young mother with young children that are still at home, the difference between actually finishing quilts and not finishing them has everything to do with the complexity of the piecing for me. Truthfully, I am not in love with that traditional pieced look anyway. Perhaps at another time in my life, I will time for it AND I will like it. I disagree w/Lipinski; there are plenty of quilters of ALL kinds, so that those who come behind us will know that we loved Turning Twenty quilts AND Grandmother's Flower garden quilts!<br /><br />I think I found a new bloggy friend. :)Laurel H.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14272798031417837665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-44069404541622715792010-06-02T14:24:50.748-06:002010-06-02T14:24:50.748-06:00Great post....and thanks for sharing your observat...Great post....and thanks for sharing your observations about modern quilting! It is not to be pigeon holed and our quilt ancestors were quite modern also. Quilting in the 80's and 90's got a little fussy and now it is coming back around with a wide range of people joining!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-61434461876832193792010-06-01T13:55:48.678-06:002010-06-01T13:55:48.678-06:00Thank you, thank you, for setting this dialogue in...Thank you, thank you, for setting this dialogue in motion! I have had a lot of similar thoughts lately, but felt afraid to express them. I agree with suddenly sahm: Amen! Thanks for saying the unsayable.Monethttp://www.madebymonet.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-37624232788697155602010-05-28T14:09:18.711-06:002010-05-28T14:09:18.711-06:00Amen, sister. Say the unsayable.Amen, sister. Say the unsayable.suddenly sahmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10319322577989075445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-77274847399303067162010-05-28T08:26:47.094-06:002010-05-28T08:26:47.094-06:00Love the way you express the concept. Like many o...Love the way you express the concept. Like many of these women, i had been thinking the same thing about old is new. Ive been reading very old back issues of my mom's Australian quilting mags and LOVE the 30's inspired designs.<br /><br />I have been feeling the rush to get more quilts done to get even in the realm of how quickly some of you inspiring ladies quilt...this post helps me put things in perspective and to take a breath.Katiehttp://katiesmodernnest.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-89947623256674275452010-05-25T10:36:46.865-06:002010-05-25T10:36:46.865-06:00(Beware, this is a long response!)
Well said and ...(Beware, this is a long response!)<br /><br />Well said and I so agree! I too recently attended a big quilt show, and found myself bored and uninspired... and also questioned where my "modern' work would fit in. <br /><br />Ah... but surround me with vintage quilts, and I feel at home. No wonder, as I first fell in love with quilt making by reading "The Quilters : Women and Domestic Art" by Patricia Cooper and Norma Bradley Buferd, published in 1977. A great book that featured first hand interviews of very aged women who had quilted most of their long lives. How wonderful to read their personal accounts of making patchwork quilts, a necessity to stay warm during the long cold winters, and being the only way that they could truly express themselves creatively. (Many of them had hard lives and some said it was the only thing that saved their sanity.) <br /><br />Then I became aware of Gwen Marston's fabulous book "Liberated Quiltmaking" and saw how her work was so influenced by old quilts. That was followed by the introduction of the Gees Bend Quilts, where I really fell in love with their utilitarian quilts, which led me to finding Japanese Boro, the antique patched clothwork made by the working poor of Japan. (And I first fell in love with design when I was a kid and my folks took me to see Frank Lloyd Wright's, mid-century masterpiece "Fallingwater'.)<br /><br />So, everything that has most inspired my 'modern quilt making' has it's roots in the past! <br /><br />The thing we must strive for is staying aware of why it inspires us. What is it that touches us so deeply about the work of the past, and how can we translate those emotions into our own work. That's what will make what we do modern, and hopefully meaningful and relevant to the next generation of quilters.Victoriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06913095438247860953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-685148586780477912010-05-24T14:08:23.759-06:002010-05-24T14:08:23.759-06:00So true in many ways. More and more younger peopl...So true in many ways. More and more younger people are taking on create arts and it's about time! I think that modern quilting is more about the process and the final creation and not at all about fitting into any kind of predefined quilt genre.Caroline ~ TrilliumDesignhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13942921653593872788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-45153510157177494482010-05-24T00:33:50.638-06:002010-05-24T00:33:50.638-06:00Thank you, Cheryl, for putting in words things I h...Thank you, Cheryl, for putting in words things I have been feeling for a while now. <br />I have no desire to have my quilts judged. They are my quilts. I don't like being told what the 'in' colours are, and I certainly do not enjoy cookie-cutter quilts.<br />I keep going back to amish quilts and being inspired. Then Antique quilts, and then somehow because I am neither Amish or from the 19th century, I do what I do 'in the spirit' of those great works, and well. <br />I quilt, because I have to: It's Therapy, it's creative expression and it IS process: who I am and how I am growing as this quilt is being made.<br />Thank you, and I hope you don't mind if I link back to this post so I can share it with my friends.<br />:)<br />Valentina (a fellow Canuck in faraway Cyprus)Valentinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13212523427936081626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7593114644785141187.post-75107073820605894172010-05-22T04:07:12.060-06:002010-05-22T04:07:12.060-06:00Very thought provoking and so true! I was nodding ...Very thought provoking and so true! I was nodding as I read along. Interesting...Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016844198614285557noreply@blogger.com